Word: clownish
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...covering the Los Angeles convention created "ugly chaos where nothing was visible except their own drawn, pale, bleating faces." complained The New Yorker last week. As the sessions wore on, the reporters "became increasingly clownish, aggressive, sarcastic and self-important. The harassment of the politicians reached an obscene pitch...
Symbol of Good Will. Central to what Khrushchev was trying to accomplish in the week's whirl of clenched fists and clownish grins, rattling rockets and fluttering peace doves, was his assault on President Eisenhower. In part, Khrushchev's attack was read as an outburst of pique and frustration. During the thaw Khrushchev staked his prestige on his mistaken notion that he could take Ike into camp, negotiate with him some kind of U.S. retreat from Berlin (Ike had once called the Berlin situation "abnormal"). The U.S.'s determination to stand firm in Berlin, made evident...