Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...time being. The squabble is over vodka, specifically the 600,000 cases a year that are exported to the U.S. Although imports are a mere drop in the shaker compared with the total 30.7 million cases of vodka sold in the U.S. last year, the Soviets, with their Stolichnaya brand (on average, $10.50 for an 80-proof fifth), account for about 80% of import sales. Or did, until the invasion of Afghanistan set some flag-waving saloonkeepers to unclogging their drains with the stuff and many restaurants to tacking calligraphic RUSSIAN VODKA NOT SOLD HERE signs to their menus...
...destroying the core and foundation of a nation's life. He who understands this will not for a minute believe that Chinese Communism is more peace-loving than the Soviet variety (it is simply that its teeth have not yet grown), or that Marshal Tito's brand is kindly by nature. The latter was also leavened with blood, and it too consolidated its power by mass killings, but the weak-hearted West preferred not to take any notice in 1943-45. He who understands the nature of Communism will not ask whether the world...
DIED. Paul Blanshard, 87, anti-Catholic polemicist and lawyer who bedeviled the church in the 1940s and '50s with numerous lawsuits and such incendiary treatises as the bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949); in St. Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement...
...reaction of the council, and of a broad spectrum of professors both at Harvard and at other universities, has been one of bafflement. Many feel that Harberger's association with the Chilean military regime, his brand of "Chicago school" economics, and his strictly economic approach to development will damage the HIID's reputation, and set it on a narrow course, which might exclude other disciplines like sociology and anthropology...
Gunter Wallraff's brand of muckraking goes one step beyond that of America's most celebrated jounalists, Woodward and Bernstein. Rather than inducing government employees to lead to the press, Wallraff becomes an employee himself, and then writes about his experiences, exposing the graft, deception and mistreatment he encounters along the way. His technique requires few accessories--false identification, perhaps, a varied wardrobe, change of moustache and glasses--for the most part, though, his own resourcefulness time and again enables him to escape from tight situations...