an antique quality, in 1947 they appear to have been as central to geopolitical discourse as, phrases such as, say, "great Satan" or "legislative coup." In 1946, Winston Churchill's metaphor for the postwar installation of Soviet-sponsored satellite governments in countries of eastern Europe--iron curtain--had passed into common parlance, it was not so considered. In 1947, at a speech in Columbia, S.C., Baruch said the following: "Let us not be deceived--today we are in the midst of a cold war. The speech was cited by Walter Lippmann, syndicated political columnist, and "the public . . . immediately made the term a commonplace of the American language" (Goldman, 1960, p. 60).
Cold War rhetoric surfaced in politics and culture alike. Wherever Cold War issue fronts emerged, the phrase functioned as a proxy for and referent of the status of Soviet-American relations and for a whole range of similarly situated dyads: communism and capitalism, East and West, the free world and the iron curtain countries, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, etc. Cold War encounters in all
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