Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Editorialized Paris' right-of-center Le Figaro: "U.S. influence has shrunk in all directions. It has lost Angola, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Laos, Cambodia and most recently a kingpin in Iran, guardian of the Gulfs oil... the Yankee umbrella has more and more holes in it. The free world now asks itself the question: Must it still count on Americans?" London's Daily Telegraph was no kinder: "There is a nervelessness at the center in Washington coupled with clumsiness at the extremities. Hence the alarming loss of respect...
...planned, the fund drive's large umbrella will cover not only the College Fund but all of the University's half-dozen "mini-drives" as well, excepting the campaigns for the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Villa I Tatti, Harvard's center for Renaissance studies in Florence, neither of which appeal to traditional Harvard contributors. The mini-drives" were the mainstay of University capital fundraising throughout the '70s and effectively focused donors' attentions on specific problems--but the College's basic needs did not receive their "due attention," Reardon says...
Thatcher was reflecting growing resentment in the British electorate that has at times flared into violence. Picketing truck drivers were assaulted at a chocolate factory in Birmingham last week by a phalanx of umbrella-wielding female workers. At an oil depot in Aberdeen, a striker was accidentally run over and killed when a truck driver refused to halt for pickets...
...have our American Chamberlain. Only the umbrella was missing. Philip L. Walsh Kingston...
...Modernist tradition) appears in their work, it is quoted rather than adhered to. There is no common style. Above all, they have no uniting ideology, as the Bauhaus or, on a less exalted level, the corporate American architects of the '50s had. Yet they are regularly grouped under one umbrella phrase: Post-Modernism...