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ˈStrangelove
Also strangelove.
The name of the character Dr. Strangelove from the film of that title (1963) directed by Stanley Kubrick, used transf. to designate one who ruthlessly considers or plans nuclear warfare. Freq. attrib. and with Dr.
1968Listener 16 May 638/1 Dr Strangelove is still at it... He has realised that the hydrogen bomb may yet prove to be a limited..means of annihilating the human race. His current concern is with finding ways of doing it more cheaply..and with greater gusto. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 10/4 In the strangelove language of the AEC, the accident exceeded the ‘maximum credible accident’ established as a possibility for the installation in the AEC's Hazards Summary. 1973Guardian 22 Feb. 11/3 The Strangelove school, of which Dr Kissinger is a charter member, sees the world as a series of problems that can be manipulated by US money, technology, and bombs. Ibid. 28 Feb. 10/6 Professor William Shockley the exponent of sterilisation for low IQ subjects..went into a Dr Strangelove act. 1975University (Princeton Univ.) Winter 5/1 The Physicists makes a Strangelove even out of Einstein. 1976‘R. B. Dominic’ Murder out of Commission xv. 137 Dean Kennison was no Dr Strangelove, yearning to set off bigger and better bangs. 1980Times 12 Aug. 10/7 Nervousness about a latterday Dr Strangelove getting his itchy finger on the button.
Hence (Dr.) ˈStrangelovean, -ian a.; ˈStrangelovism, a word or expression characteristic of one who toys with the concept of nuclear war.
1967Newsweek 27 Mar. 47 Words like deterrent, credibility, overkill and doomsday machine became familiar, and were even kidded in such movies as ‘Dr. Strangelove’. Now development of anti-ballistic missiles has produced a second generation of Strangelovisms. 1969Washington Post 23 Apr. a16/4 Mendel Rivers..suggested that nuclear weapons be used if necessary to ‘bring this crowd to its knees’... Such ‘strangelovisms’ from that source are of course not new. 1971P. Dickson Think Tanks 4 Outside Washington, D.C.,..a group of analysts is fighting the wars of the 1990's in a $50,000 Strangelovean game room to see who wins, why, and with what weapons. 1977Time 11 Apr. 13/1 The concepts are often Strangelovean. 1978Chatelaine (Canada) Dec. 41/3 There was something Dr. Strangelovian about these top-level intellectuals who discussed top-secret scenarios. |