Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This attitude of carefree abandon is one of the main arguments in the current drive to eliminate Derby Day. Critics call the weekend-long festival "a debauchery, and a bad reflection on Yale...
...height of the McCarthy hubbub last spring, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith rose on the floor of the Senate and directed some pointed remarks at her glowering colleague. "As a U.S. Senator," she said, "I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle." Her Declaration of Conscience, which six other G.O.P. liberals also signed (TIME, June 12), declared "it is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques...
...Troubled Sleep, Sartre's characters get to know the bottom of the abyss very well. The news of Volume III of his tetralogy is that some of Sartre's Frenchmen are beginning to see a way out. Says one of them, a Christian: "Let us abandon the idea that our defeat was the effect of chance . . . When a man believes he is the innocent victim of a catastrophe and sits wringing his hands, unable to understand what has happened to him, is it not good news for him to be told that he is expiating his own fault...
Just two years ago the Advocate, in an attempt to abandon a stereotyped "artiness," printed a flurry of expository articles like "The Jew at Harvard." The articles were interesting, but they ducked the problem. Instead of improving its content, the magazine simply changed it. The latest Advocate takes on a bigger job; it sticks largely to fiction, which means that content alone cannot put it over. This is a much more limited and therefore a much more difficult job. The new Advocate does it well...
...Asia, "the Soviet Union could impose its demands on the world . . . The Soviet Union does not have to attack the United States to secure domination of the world. It can achieve its ends by isolating us and swallowing up our allies. Therefore, even if we were craven enough to abandon our ideals, it would be disastrous for us to withdraw from the community of free nations . . . No one nation can find protection in a selfish search for a safe haven from the storm...