Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response. Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days at law school," President Nixon told his aides last week. "I might say I was fairly good...
...Primacy of Form: While individual contradictions-"content"-can be re-packaged and assimilated by the system, a structure of contradictions constitutes a practical, revolutionary tool: the dialectical method, which cannot be co-opted since its sole function is the destruction of the ruling order. The most useful revolutionary cinema, then, is one which translates into cinematic form that ultimate revolutionary weapon, class struggle...
Laszlo Pasztor '73, chairman of YAF at Harvard, denounced the treaty as a "propaganda tool" and told the Council. "If you endorse this treaty you will be supporting those forces who want a Viet Cong victory, not peace...
...indictment against Krasher originally was dismissed in Superior Court. but the state appealed, and the Supreme Court upheld the contention that the ram was a burglar tool...
...late '40s or early '50s, a new enzyme of change was loose doing its catalytic work. Peppermill buyers weren't like other consumers. Instead of assuming the best product was the most processed one, packaged to flow most quickly through our distribution system, these people were buying a tool to gain greater control over the quality of their pepper, which they wanted in its natural, unprocessed and unrefined state. This was a new kind of consumer, who desired not only pepper-fine or rough-ground pepper-but most of all, mastery over this little bit of his physical environment...