Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Katanga was waging a "clever big-money campaign" through a Manhattan-based Belgian public relations man named Michel Struelens, had spent $140,000 in 15 months "dispensing a string of myths" designed to make Tshombe look good in American eyes. (The accusation seemed to overlook the fact that the sum in question is hardly big money in Manhattan's public relations world, and that a great many Americans are pro-Katanga without any help from political pressagents.) Chief culprits in the whole mess, said Rowan, were the big Belgian-run mining complex, Union Minière du Haut-Katanga...
While it has created, in a very small way, something like an international civil service and the beginnings of a supranational loyalty, it remains no more than the sum of its parts-and expresses, often enough, only the lowest common denominator of its members' policies. It can never be several things that overly enthusiastic supporters have, to its own disadvantage, wanted it to be. It cannot solve major world issues (Berlin, nuclear testing) because of the veto system, which accurately reflects the realities of a divided world. It cannot be a substitute for national policy, and should...
...central task of education is religious conversion." He does not mean that religion as such should be taught in public schools; he fully accepts the First Amendment's separation of church and state. He does mean that "public education can be religious" without violating laws or liberties. In sum. he says, schools should emphasize and demonstrate...
...heard more boos in Boston." said a presidential aide. The President arrived at no momentous decisions. He went through a great many ceremonial routines. In so doing, he gave visible evidence of the regard which the U.S. holds for its Latin American neighbors. And he successfully contributed to the sum of the whole that is U.S. "foreign policy...
...with their basic attitude: shock the bourgeoisie and slam the Establishment. In a 1923 play, In the Jungle of the Cities, Bertolt Brecht furnished the theater of the absurd with its basic theme. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a fierce but motiveless contest, and Shlink tries to sum it up: "If you crammed a ship full of human bodies till it burst, the loneliness inside it would be so great that they would turn to ice . . . so great is our isolation that even conflict is impossible." Although Brecht abandoned the theater of the absurd for social protest...