Word: prescient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernstein was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Heyden White, daughter of Theodore White, TIME'S correspondent in China from 1939 to 1945, and co-author of Thunder Out of China (1946), a prescient report on the eventual Communist takeover. Heyden White, who grew up hearing about China from her father, was enthralled by Witke's insights: "We can now learn Chiang Ch'ing's own version of what was happening during those turbulent times...
...title was perhaps a little selfconscious, for so princely an author. Still, when Jordan's bantam King Hussein decided to write his 1962 autobiography, he was remarkably prescient in borrowing Shakespeare's line, "Uneasy Lies the Head." Half of Hussein's kingdom was to fall to Israel after the 1967 war; Palestinian assassins regularly took potshots at him; other Arab rulers virtually ostracized him after Hussein expelled Palestinian fedayeen from his country in 1970. On top of everything else, Jordan's economy weakened as prices for phosphate, the kingdom's principal resource, dropped...
...World War II on the grounds that it would result in repression and fascism at home and the shoring up of imperialist regimes (Britain and France) abroad. Even those of his supporters who disagreed with his position in this case--and in others in which he was more prescient--could not help appreciating and respecting his reasons. Swanberg's Thomas thus appears as an almost classically tragic figure whose discriminating mind and commitment to democratic ideals were at once his greatest personal assets and political liabilities. In what seems an apocryphal metaphor, Swanberg notes that Thomas was a singularly inept...
...would ultimately have a lot to do with the severe paintings Rauschenberg made between 1951 and '53: all-white and then all-black panels, the latter painted over a wrinkled mulch of newspaper, with no relationships of color. Twenty-five years ago, these pictures looked absurd; today they seem prescient. Art history has caught up with them, and the work of some of the most admired younger American painters?Robert Ryman's all-white paintings, Brice Marden's monochrome slabs of encaustic?can be traced back to them. "Albers," says Rauschenberg, "did give me a sense of discipline that...
Carter began laying the foundation for his campaign four years ago, when he and his astute campaign director, Hamilton Jordan (see box page 34), drafted an uncannily prescient strategy for the primaries. About a year later, as Democratic congressional campaign chairman for the 1974 election, Carter traveled all over, meeting party officials and power brokers, observing politics outside the South, learning firsthand the issues that bothered voters...