Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know I am to all that is human endeavor, to all that past and to all that shall be, to all that shall be lost and leave no trace," Long before this penultimate sentence, the vision is clear, through this prose that is not only a lens but a prism...
Gromyko has little interest in the Third World. He would rarely see Foreign Ministry officials concerned with developing countries and, despite countless invitations, has never visited any black African nation. Except for Cuba, he has never been to a Latin American country. China interests him primarily through the prism of Moscow-Washington-Peking politics. I once had an argument about all this with Vadim Zagladin, deputy to Boris Ponomarev, chief of the Central Committee's International Department. Speaking of Africa, I remarked on the futility of "playing with some pissant little 'liberation' committees that come into being overnight and disappear...
...practicing private "political" law back in the '50s, Mondale has been campaigning for, or serving in, public office his entire adult life. His view of the nation and the world has been shaped from within the Government looking out. He has seen the private sector through the prism of lobbyists and favor seekers. Though he has drawn a six-figure salary as a Chicago lawyer for the past three years, his worth was measured by proximity to Government power. For nearly 30 years Mondale has devoted his life to spending other people's money in the belief that...
...music of their times: the Popular Front of 1936, the Occupation of 1940, the Liberation of '44, the G.I. invasion of '46, the first rock-'n'-roll siege in '56, the student uprising of May '68, all as refracted through the cracked prism of the Mitterrand...
LOGICALLY ENOUGH, the ideological framework that hinders economic recovery also perverts international political relations. The inability of the United States to see the world through anything other than an East-West prism is not a new factor, but has become particularly dangerous given the upheavals in Central America. The United States is presently engaged to some extent in El Salvador and Nicaragua. In both countries, the Administration is pursuing ideologically rigid policies that seem destined to fail...