Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Kissinger once called him "the greatest statesman of our era." Indeed, few men in the 20th century did more than Chou En-lai to forge the Chinese revolution and to change the shape of international politics. Chou was for a quarter-century the overseer of China's vast governing bureaucracy. As the chief architect of China's foreign policy under Chairman Mao Tse-tung, he charted Peking's course of independence from the two superpowers, creating in the process a new world center of power and influence. Suave, shrewd and enduring, he advanced the cause of China with Metternichian...
...forest creatures who look like plush Walt Disney cartoons. Bergman interpolates respectful self-assertions wherever he can, small tugs on the sleeve to remind us that while we're appreciating Mozart we should be noticing him, too. During the overture he weaves shots of his audience into a vast mosaic of human faces (cutting to the beat of the music), and he returns obsessively to a belond angelic little girl who by some odd coincidence looks a lot like Liv Ullman and a touch like Bergman himself. Between acts his camera wanders around backstage, where Sarastro reads the score...
...spell Kopechne's name, so he left a blank. The witnesses quickly left Martha's Vineyard, Kennedy heading to Hyannisport and an emergency meeting of the New Frontier brain trust, where a statement explaining the affair was hammered out. On the night of July 25 Kennedy told a vast television audience a well-scripted tale of mental confusion and fear after the accident, heroic rescue attempts, and a half-crazed swim back to Edgartown. Most remained unconvinced he was telling the full story...
Attorneys representing the province of Quebec found all this quaint but irrelevant. Their argument was simple, traditional and arrogant: how could a handful of primitives in a vast wilderness stand in the way of progress? The government also tried to persuade the judge that Cree and Eskimos were eagerly embracing the white man's ways. Considerable effort was made to produce a witness who had seen Indians eating Kentucky Fried Chicken...
Paper Promises. By any historical standard, the outcome of the Indian case could have been worse. Last month the Cree and Inuit agreed to relinquish all claims to their vast lands in return for $225 million, plus specific hunting, fishing and trapping rights and some voice in the governing and development of the region. But there remain Indians still un satisfied by the deal - and who can wholly blame them? It is one of the laws governing the balance of human nature that paper and promises erode much faster than real estate...