Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Negotiations are also likely to be conditioned by Kissinger's penchant for face-to-face negotiations. So successful has the Secretary of State been in the Middle East that he has become a status symbol: Arab leaders now want to talk to no one lower. Both Kuwait and Abu Dhabi recently refused to see Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco when Kissinger proposed sending him to give a briefing on the Egyptian-Israeli talks. But Kissinger, for the next month at least, is booked for Western Hemisphere consultations, including discussions with Panama on the status of the Panama...
...Japan Institute at Harvard is planned as a visible symbol of Harvard's desire to raise the Japanese studies to the same level as its studies of the major industrial countries of Europe, and as a coordinating organ to promote and develop Japanese studies throughout the University," he said...
...political implications, forced Watergate into the light of investigative day. One judge, insisting that not all the panoply of the presidency entitled Nixon to withhold material evidence from the Watergate prosecutors, brought the White House tapes and documents out of hiding. For these deeds, and as a symbol of the American judiciary's insistence on the priority of law throughout the sordid Watergate saga of 1973, TIME'S Man of the Year is Federal Judge John Joseph Sirica...
...orders regarding the presidential tapes, and publicly protested Nixon's command that he desist from seeking further presidential evidence. Fired by Nixon, Cox bowed out with a Brahmin civility that inspired a fire storm of protest at his dismissal. Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, too, stood as a staunch symbol of integrity in the celebrated "Saturday Night Massacre" by defying the White House decree that he fire Cox. Richardson resigned instead, further arousing national indignation...
...moving away from the strict line-and-rectangle grid. Black-White Duet with Red, 1953 (see cut), loosens the bond. Instead of Mondrian's delicately balanced, off-center compositions, a kind of symmetry prevails: the skewed, hefty profiles of black and white fit together like a Yin-Yang symbol as revised by a locksmith. "I liked what Mondrian had discovered - the interchangeability of form and space," Smith recalls. "But I wanted to apply that to free form...