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Some Democratic Senators were so nettled by the President's secretiveness that they suspected that the whole agreement was merely a ruse to gain support for continued spending on ABM. Their rebellion is explained less by neo-isolationism than by their growing sense of impotence in foreign policy making (see TIME ESSAY). Nixon might have spared himself considerable trouble if he had let a few key Senators know what he was up to. Mansfield, for example, was rather vaguely informed only hours before the Senate vote...
President Nixon has used the term neo-isolationist to describe certain of his senatorial critics who would alter U.S. foreign policy or who seek a greater role for the Congress in shaping it. Once the name of a popular and viable political doctrine, isolationism today-with or without "neo" attached to it-is a pejorative word. It has no real validity in a world of instant communications, internationally linked economies, and nuclear weapons that can bridge continents at Mach 23 speed. Properly speaking, the term suggests someone who would like to disengage the U.S. from the rest of the world...
...Williams believes that King, at the time of his assassination, was only beginning to structure his efforts into forms that could generate the necessary concrete political power and accurately focus it towards the achievement of the survival and self-determination of black people and poor people. The neo-Populism of the Poor People's March and King's activity in the antiwar movement are cited by Williams as indicative of the new directions in which King was moving. Because these new directions posed genuine threats to the institutionalized power of the Church and State in some exercise of white power...
Some decades back, investors discovered the art market. Some were genuinely interested in art but were also delighted to find that works by the right kind of artists were even safer than the best stocks. The Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists, in particular, were not only sound aesthetically and fiscally but also carried social panache. The result has been staggering prices for pictures which, good enough in themselves, would scarcely deserve to be ranked with the great masters-or even with the best pictures by the same painters...
...play is now being done with loving care, solid characterization, highly skillful acting and a melancholy sense of life's fatalities. O'Neill in this work strictly observed the Greek unities of time, place and action, and came closest to his lifelong aim of writing a neo-Greek tragedy. The story begins at breakfast time in New London, Conn., in 1912 and ends around midnight of the same day. The "four haunted Tyrones," as O'Neill renamed his family, establish a tension of rage and apology, followed by purgation in four self-revelatory monologues...