Word: zenith
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Browder's life was replete with such ironies. The party he came to head was forever caricatured for its heavy foreign accent and its European-immigrant membership. Yet he, the man who brought the party to its zenith, proudly traced his family's history in the New World back to the 1650s. His grandfather had been a circuit-riding Methodist parson and his father a Kansas homesteader and schoolteacher. Browder began as a good capitalist apparatchik-a department store cashboy at the age of nine. He joined the fledgling party in the early 1920s after serving two jail...
...Middle Kingdom of Chairman Mao. Nor was it likely to repeat the cold-warring tension of John Kennedy's 1961 test of wills with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Nonetheless, this summit had a drama of its own. Here was Leonid Brezhnev, a superconfident Soviet leader at the zenith of his power, who had staked much of that power and of his own reputation on the idea of revitalizing the Soviet economy by dealing with the West. And here was Richard Nixon, an American President weakened by a damaging political scandal, who nevertheless had done more than any previous President...
...method: shrewd conclusion based on empirical observation. What the eyes could see, the wits could solve. At the zenith of the Darwinian revolution, Oliver Wendell Holmes assured his countrymen: "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground floor...
This policy has attracted such foreign-owned giants as Vöest, an Austrian combine that is expected to turn out $1.1 million worth of steel annually on Taiwan, and a slew of electronics firms: Sony, Hitachi, RCA, Motorola, Zenith, Admiral. Taiwan is now the chief supplier of black-and-white TV sets to the U.S. Ford Motor Co. has embarked on a $36.3 million venture with Lio Ho, a Taiwanese firm, to produce several small economy cars, selling at around $1,600, for the Asian market. The island also produces Sanyang motorcycles. Taiwan lately has switched to seeking capital...
...game survived it all. How? Is it because of the inexhaustible promotional gimmicks, the bat and ball and senior citizens days; the all-weather artificial turf; the dazzling uniforms? Is it the metaphysics and momentum that still continue from the zenith of the '30s and '40s? Or is it that this supposedly stolid, permanent game has imperceptibly accommodated change-that in each era it has accepted physical, textual and social alterations that a decade before had seemed impossibly revolutionary? Is it that, in the end, no other sport is so accurate a reflection of the supposedly stolid, permanent...