单词 | total diplomacy |
释义 | > as lemmastotal diplomacy c. Complete in nature; involving all resources; manifesting every characteristic or the whole nature of an activity, person, etc.; all-encompassing, all-inclusive; fully co-ordinated or integrated. total diplomacy, diplomacy conducted with the consent or participation of all citizens and institutions; total institution (see quot. 1962); total theatre, (a) a theatre designed for maximum involvement of performers and audience; dramaturgy which achieves this; (b) theatre involving a wide range of techniques and conventions; total woman, spec. a woman who conforms to the female ‘ideal’ or stereotype of complete self-abnegation and devotion to the interests of a man. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] > complete or without exception entirea1400 catholic1664 impartiala1716 total1935 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > other types or branches satyric1693 legitimate1826 boulevard theatre1838 satyr drama1839 tragicomic1842 costume drama1847 Sardoodledom1895 slice of life1895 cape and sword (also cape and cloak)1898 total theatre1935 epic theatre1938 Theatre of Cruelty1954 music theatre1957 psychodramatics1957 reader's theatre1957 metatheatre1960 Theatre of the Absurd1961 nautanki1962 Theatre of Fact1966 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > types of public diplomacy1856 gunboat diplomacy1927 total diplomacy1935 sputnik diplomacy1957 shuttle diplomacy1974 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > enclosed and formally administered total institution1957 1935 W. Gropius in S. Giedion W. Gropius (1954) i. 61 The aim of this ‘Total Theater’ is to draw the spectator into the drama. All technical means have to be subordinated to this aim and must never become ends in themselves. 1950 World-Telegram-Sun (N.Y.) 14 Mar. 12 He [sc. D. Acheson] defines ‘total diplomacy’ as the full use of Congress,..government agencies, as well as business, labor and agriculture. 1951 E. A. Walsh (title) Total empire: the roots and progress of world communism. 1957 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 26 Jan. 22/1 M. [Jean-Louis] Barrault..describes it as follows: ‘“Total Theatre” is simply the true and traditional theatre, the one which makes use of man “in his totality”, his gestures, pantomime, dances, breath, cries, articulation, speech, poetry, and singing.’ 1957 J. D. MacDonald Man of Affairs iii. 43 I did not see how any platonic relationship between Mike and this total woman would be possible. 1957 E. Goffman in Symposium on Preventive & Soc. Psychiatry 44 [These institutions'] encompassing or total character is symbolized by the barrier to social intercourse with the outside that is often built right into the physical plant: locked doors, high walls, barbed wire, cliffs and water, open terrain, and so forth. These I am calling total insititutions. 1962 E. Goffman Asylums p. xiii A total institution may be defined as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. 1963 I. Fletcher in B. Sewell Two Friends 63 Spiritual Poems is a fine example of ‘total art’, its paper and typography reflecting the eclecticism and scholarly caprice of content. 1966 Listener 29 Dec. 959/2 I still think the best kind of Christmas show for children is pantomime. It is a form of total theatre—story, spectacle, ballet, song, revue sketch, comedians' jokes, audience-participation, even circus acts. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. i. 34/2 Rather he is thought of as a human being who needs dentistry badly and one for whom total care is now available. 1969 Times 17 Oct. 17/4 Carlo Palazzi, who is a past-master of the total look..had all his men wearing saffron coloured clothes which mixed and, of course, matched. 1972 A. Bryant Bless this House iv. 44 Marabel Morgan..talked about her course entitled ‘The Total Woman’. 1973 M. Morgan Total Woman (1975) iv. 60 A Total Woman caters to her man's special quirks, whether it be in salads, sex, or sports. 1973 Times 30 July 20/3 They became convinced that developers and local authorities ought to concern themselves with engineering a ‘total’ environment for a community, of which the buildings themselves are only a part. 1974 Howard Jrnl. 14 86 Most total institutions leave their mark on those who devote their lives to them—the colonel, the sea captain, the public school headmaster, the monk and the nun are popular cultural stereotypes. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 477/5 The approach throughout is scholarly and thorough, no one period receiving less attention than any other. As one might expect, Roman and medieval features are fully treated, but so too are post~medieval and recent... This is total archaeology at its best. 1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 46/3 (advt.) Professional man, 60, needs slender, total woman over 30 for September, 1978, fortnight Alaskan cruise. 1978 New Yorker 7 Aug. 45/1 In the past few years the Dutch have been the most thrilling [soccer] side to watch, playing a running game—‘total football’, it is called—with players interchanging positions and functions but always pressing forward on the attack. < as lemmas |
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