Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot resist biting the hand that feeds him," the London Observer once wrote. "There is scarcely a Press lord in Fleet Street who has not a finger or two missing to prove it." In 1936, five years after setting foot on Fleet Street, Journalist Churchill quit two papers at once-the Daily Mail and the Sunday Dispatch-because both refused to print one of his contributions. By nature mettlesome, he did not spare even his employers; he wrote of the "rivers of pornography" flowing from Fleet Street, attacked publishers as easily as Prime Ministers. When Fleet Street hit back, Churchill...
...abuse from Adenauer, many Germans began calling him "Gummilowe" (rubber lion). There is a widespread sense of Autoritatsmudigkeit-weariness of authority-in Germany today, and Erhard fits that mood. Erhard is fasci nated by ideas and by people. Where Adenauer could loftily dismiss a dissenting aide, Erhard cannot resist the temptation to listen to all the arguments. "Ja, tell me more," he will grunt, and almost never flatly contradicts anyone...
...they please." Adenauer knows well that neither Erhard nor Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder shares his ideas about foreign policy. In "the Erhard era," Bonn will presumably use its influence to strengthen the Atlantic Alliance and bring Britain into the Common Market. The new Chancellor seems determined to resist Charles de Gaulle's vision of an exclusive, inward-looking Europe dominated by France, and to reject France's proffered membership in an independent European deterrent based on De Gaulle's force de dissuasion. But even as Adenauer's desk was being carted out of the Chancellor...
Viewers who resist change can find something familiar in ABC's Breaking Point, the season's new addition to the psycho ward. Following the tried Kil-casey formula, there's a young, straight-talking psychiatrist and an old, knowing psychiatrist. There is also a slosh of psychiatric midden. How long will TV go on mistaking mental upset for high drama...
...during 7 years in tribal Africa. Perhaps, I mused, there is something to be said for tribalism after all: perhaps the urge to "belong," to be at one with a greater whole, to sink individuality into tradition and tradition into loyalty, is too strong for any of us to resist...