Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political irritation over foreign bases can come to outweigh the military advantage. In the wake of the Japanese rioting over the U.S. Security Treaty (which guarantees U.S. bases for a minimum of ten years), India's Prime Minister Nehru last week denounced foreign bases as an "irritating symbol of foreign power and a reminder of war." Columnist Walter Lippmann, citing Japan, held that the forward-base system had become "increasingly unworkable" since the Soviets developed a nuclear striking force. "There is a profound weakness in a strategical policy which rests on bases that are indefensible," he wrote. "Bases...
...picture, taken by Minkowski with Palomar's giant 200-in. Hale telescope, was a dramatic symbol of a surge in astronomical science made possible by a far-sighted alliance between optical and radio telescopy. When Palomar's 200-incher was completed in 1948, no one expected it to photograph galaxies more than i billion light years away. A major reason: in such telescopes the field of view is very small, and to reach full range they must take long-exposure pictures of each tiny spot before moving on to the next. Thus, Palomar cannot range the heavens...
...apartment as launching pad for some fairly sordid affairs, the picture takes on a hard, unwinking look of irony. Again and again, Wilder seems to speak in the accents of one of his favorite cities, prewar Berlin, a tough, sardonic, sometimes wryly sentimental place whose intellectual symbol was Bertolt Brecht. Is Billy trying to say something serious about men and women, heels and heroes? Is he as a sort of puritanical pander, trying to instruct as he entertains...
Whatever the reason, the attack on Ike was a premeditated cold-war thrust, designed to weaken the U.S.'s prestige and influence in the world by weakening the prestige of Dwight Eisenhower. Russian leaders are well aware that for many millions of people Dwight Eisenhower is a symbol of the U.S. and of its peaceableness and good will in its dealings with other nations-as shown by the movingly warm receptions he got on his December trip to Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and his February-March trip to Latin America...
Perhaps the most important reason why Khrushchev withdrew his invitation to Dwight Eisenhower to visit Russia was a fear that in Russia, too, the people would enthusiastically respond to him as a symbol of the U.S. Last week, with the President preparing for a mid-June trip to the Philippines, Formosa, Japan and South Korea, Khrushchev worked desperately to discredit the symbol. Pravda followed up with a warning that it would do Ike "no good" to go to Japan...