Word: presentable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rich, too powerful, too heedless of fate. Today Europe's complaint is that America is not rich enough, not powerful enough-and still too heedless of fate. These perceptions of America's early virtue and later vices, of its pre-Viet Nam power and its present weakness, share one quality: they are feverishly overblown...
...Europe accuses Washington of having no strategy toward the Soviets in the present crisis, what is Europe's strategy? Where are the practical suggestions or initiatives for joint action, other than the vague notion of a neutralized Afghanistan? Yes, the Germans are being helpful in snoring up Turkey; the French are always willing to send some paratroopers to trouble spots-and such actions should not be underestimated. On the other hand, the .European Community's recent Middle East initiative only strengthened the Begin government's intransigence. It runs the risk, even in its toned-down version...
...shown again and again that it has the resilience to recover from failures, though it often takes a while and the process is democratically muddled. "Americans," said Dean Acheson, "do at the end of the day what they don't like to do at noon." Present European attitudes and policies are not designed to help bring about an American resurgence. On the contrary: they can only help thrust America back upon itself and thus ultimately hurt Europe. If, through arrogance or fear or misjudgment, Europe's leaders were to count America out too soon, they would...
...South Africa's future. No arrangement introducing a black majority government over the whites will be accepted voluntarily or peacefully by the Afrikaners-not, at least, at the present stage of cultural differentiation between black and white in South Africa. If South African whites become frustrated in their efforts to ensure their own political security by means of fair and reasonable offers of accommodation to the other groups, it might give them little option except to ensure their political survival by more authoritarian means. But they would find it hard to live long with authoritarianism in light...
...Bruins and the remarkable renaissance of the NBA Celtics are matters beyond the realm of concern this summer. There is one other big-league team around--the New England Tea Men of the North American Soccer League (formerly known as the Minutemen until purchased by Lipton, the present nickname can be attributed to the fact that "Cup of Soup Men" would presumably have been historically inappropriate). The Tea Men are locked into the Eastern Division of the NASL's American Conference, dominated by a pair of strong Florida entries from Tampa Bay and Fort Lauderdale. No one pays much attention...