Word: toole
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most relevant policy tool which the Kennedy government inherited from the Cold Warriors was the doctrine of preventive warfare. This doctrine, in turn, was conceived with the psychological potentialities of the atomic bomb fully in mind. To repeat an important point, there is growing evidence that the decision to use the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was made within the framework of the Potsdam negotiations, not the then-foreseeable Japanese capitulation...
McCarthy was also a master of telling an endless flow of little lies to sow doubt and distrust and play on peoples' emotions. For him discourse was a tool of exploitation. That is, language was to be used not for clarification and increased understanding, but for accusation, distortion, misrepresentation, denunciation, defamation-in any number of ways to obfuscate and confuse and by so doing to engender and inflame feelings of hate and anger...
...promote the Pinto, Ford is also offering buyers a simple, key-shaped tool that it claims serves 27 purposes, from measuring the gap between electrodes on a spark plug to stripping wire and turning regular and Phillips screws. Not to be outdone, G.M. suggests that, with its illustrated and simplified manual, the Vega owner will need only a few tools: wrench, screwdriver, coat hanger, garden hose and-to replace transmission and rear-axle fluids-a turkey baster...
...Ernest Hemingway with the same terms. Hence the meta-language of criticism has to be stretched beyond the usual valuations and interpretations in order to examine the structure of the creator's perceived world. The perceived world of a Spillane or a Russ Meyer becomes as important a tool for understanding our melieu as the far more complex world of Hemingway...
...Part of Martin's problem lies in his understanding of the political atmosphere of the thirties. Liberal, Trotskyite, Socialist and Stalinist are used interchangeably, or with the most superficial transitions. But West's relation to the different political groups is never satisfactorily explained, consequently abandoning an important interpretive tool. The work is an invaluable source book, but "The Art of His Life" as the subtitle hints, would be better examined by a more pointed, intimate study...