Word: turnabout
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...only political history. After Pope Urban II in 1095 called for war to recapture the Holy Land, the spontaneous outcry of listening clerics -"God wills it!"-helped fire up Christendom for the First Crusade. The translation of philosophy and doctrine into slogans has assisted in every major political turnabout, from Runnymede to Yalta. Indeed, the history of the U.S. can plausibly be capsuled in a litany of slogans: No taxation without representation. Give me liberty or give me death. Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes. Let the people rule. Horace Greeley's popularization...
...Elvis Redux will be followed by an ABC-TV movie with Robert Duvall playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. This month, an all-star acting team will impersonate every President from Taft to Eisenhower in NBC's eight-part mini-series called Backstairs at the White House. In a bizarre turnabout, Producer Larry Jacobson, of American International Television, has persuaded 16 stars and sports celebrities, including Rosemary Clooney and Neil Sedaka, to re-enact turning points in their lives -everything from nervous breakdowns to deepest career crises. "They actually rented out the apartment I had my breakdown in," marvels Comedian Marty...
...paid campaign aides, Celeste has built a professional organization throughout usually Republican southern Ohio and is counting on disaffection with Rhodes among normally Democratic urban voters in northern Ohio. Last week a statewide poll by the Akron Beacon Journal showed Celeste moving ahead by four percentage points-quite a turnabout from polls that once gave Rhodes a 20-point lead. But Rhodes professes to be unconcerned. Said he: "I haven't even opened...
...Western capitals as well as in Africa, the Vorster double shocker exploded with all the calculated force of a hidden mine. At U.N. headquarters in New York City, there was concern that the whole future of southern Africa was now cast into an ominous state of uncertainty. Vorster's turnabout on Namibia and his departure added up to an invitation to renewed warfare between South Africa and SWAPO, a fresh opening for Soviet and Cuban influence on the guerrillas, and ultimately a drive to impose economic sanctions against South Africa...
...French were immediately convinced that Marchais's ingratiating turnabout on dissent within the party was a permanent change. Observed Jean-François Revel, perennial critic of the Communists: "Each time that the party steps on the democratic accelerator, it then pushes yet more vigorously on the brake." That helps explain why the Communists are stalled in France's political traffic...