Word: relics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though they hate to give up a relationship that was so cozy and comfortable for so long, the Japanese have come to accept your thesis that their long near-total reliance on Washington's leadership is now obsolete-a relic of the cold war era when there were just two antagonistic giants, each with its own cluster of clients. But while they welcome a little more independence, the Japanese fear that the new five-power future espoused by the President could be as unworkable as the old two-power world. As they see it, Nixon's (and your...
...typical Tartan gang member is Jim Tipping, a long-haired lad of 18 who has a crest of Protestant banners tattooed upon his scarred right arm. The scar is a relic of an I.R.A. gunshot wound that Tipping suffered while walking down a Belfast street six weeks ago. Tipping's gang, the Shankhill Tartans, has hundreds of members, who spend much of their time lolling on street corners and shouting anti-Catholic slogans on Saturday afternoons. They were reared in an atmosphere of sectarian bitterness and bigotry, and their attitudes show it. "I hate them," Tipping says...
Built seven years ago on the fertile farm lands of Scottsbluff (pop. 14,000), the college is bankrupt, a poignant relic of the rush for a college education in the 1960s. When it folded eight months ago, the 30 faculty members scattered, like the students, leaving behind nine vacant buildings, 5,000 unsold yearbooks, 75 microscopes, an airplane, $7,300,000 in debts and Dr. Weese...
...Comedian Flip Wilson's routines. "He sneaked up behind me and said, 'Say, Mama, look at that dress in the window . . .' " The listener chuckles at the transparent rationalization. Everybody knows that there isn't any real devil. The devil is just a myth, a relic of folklore, grist for a joke...
...happens, Fulbright's criticism of the stations is itself a cold war relic. To be sure, when they were founded in the early 1950s, both Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were indeed propaganda tools that sought to undermine the Communist governments. To its enduring discredit, Radio Free Europe, in the opening stage of the 1956 revolution, encouraged Hungarian freedom fighters to believe that the West would intervene militarily on their side. Since then, however, there have been massive personnel and policy changes at both stations...