Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lipscomb sympathizes with President Nixon's predicament. "I feel he is sincerely trying to end the war, and I don't blame him for the situation. He largely inherited it." But Lipscomb was willing to join the M-day protest for starkly simple reasons that echo around many campuses and communities. "Bringing a few troops home is only a numbers game to appease college students," he contends. "But they can't be appeased. We will settle for nothing but an end. We are on a course of unilateral withdrawal and it must be speeded...
...Discipline, orderliness, subservience, cleanliness, industriousness, precision, and all the other virtues ascribed by many to the Germans as an echo of past splendor have already given way to a much less rigid set of values, among which economic success, a high income, the holiday trip, and the new car play a much larger part than the virtues of the past. Younger people especially display little of the much praised and much scorned respect for authority, and less of the disciplined virtues that for their fathers were allegedly sacred. A world of highly individual values has emerged, which puts the experienced...
What has actually changed? There will be a new logotype on Coke cans, boxes, signs, trucks, cups, glasses and uniforms-everything but the bottles. But the logo will still spell Coca-Cola in the familiar flowing, baroque script. The new twisting white ribbon under the words is supposed to "echo" the wasp-waisted shape of the bottle. Coke signs and emblems, however, will now be square or at least rectangular; the old circles, diamonds and fish shapes will be banished from the company's advertising. Drivers of the 25,000 Coca-Cola trucks, a fleet that Coke officials claim...
...easy to keep faith in Adam Smith's 'unseen hand' in an economy so largely dominated by conglomerate giants. With mass communications concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free marketplace seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler...
...knew that Peter and I and the girls we meet would never be seen totally nude in the nude swimming scene, because I wanted to show the over-forty crowd that it is possible to play like innocent children in the nude without getting into sex." In the echo chamber of our Hollywood past you can hear some sincere executive justify Hollywood's code of the thirties (twin beds for all married couples) by explaining that they want to show the under-twenty set that it is possible to be married without getting into dirty...