Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their entire foreign policy. If not triggered by the Middle East debacle alone, the review is certainly made more urgent by it. The biggest question to be answered is whether Moscow will come down on the side of détente or defiance, and the answer to that question could shape world events for years to come. Says one East European diplomat: "They desperately want something to crow about." Moscow's policymakers, who have historically gyrated between common sense and ideological intransigence, could swing toward a hard line. Or they could consult the box score of the last two decades...
...controllable level, man applies his intellect to the universe about him and builds social systems to suit his needs. But at a deeper level, the implacable pattern that is ingrained in the human intellect, much like the program that decrees the functioning of a computer, directs the shape of everything built by social man. It may work, says Lévi-Strauss, like "the least common denominator of human thought...
...Shahn, D.A., painter. Pathos, protest, wit and wisdom shape this lively artist's telling work...
...months and perhaps years, debate will rage about the borders of Israel and about how much (if any) of its conquered territory it has a right to keep. That debate, while important, is secondary. The real issue is not Israel's specific size or shape but its basic right to exist. Most of the world has accepted and acknowledged that right, but not the Arabs. After their disastrous defeat, the Arab leaders still proclaim that their ambition is to build up enough strength to eradicate the state of Israel some day, even if it takes generations. They sound...
...brand name Nirodh, a Sanskrit word roughly translatable as "freedom from fear." Indian men have been enthusiastic customers, partly because the contraceptives cost less than 2? for a packet of three. Of course, there have been some problems. Though family planners had assumed that the contraceptive's shape would suggest the method of use, and enclosed instructions in each package just to be safe, the idea has sometimes been hard to get across. Government demonstrators stretched sheaths over bamboo sticks, but peasants wondered later why the magic did not work when they, too, faithfully stretched them over bamboo. Even...