Word: abjection
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...Despite sneers, smears and bully-boy manners," TIME [March 1] notes "some real achievements" by Senator McCarthy. Yes, including one which no enemy of the nation has ever been able to accomplish-the achievement of obtaining the abject and complete surrender of the Army of the United States...
What can be negotiated in Indo-China? In the U.S. view, little except an abject surrender to the Communists. The country cannot be divided, like Korea, for the Viet Minh forces cannot be shut off by a tourniquet: they are in the blood stream. Moreover, the French hold the two important rice deltas, but the Hanoi delta is in the north and the Mekong delta is in the south, and the French could not give up Hanoi, as they must in any north-south division...
Monet probably painted the picture in 1869, when he was a young man and a failure, living in abject poverty and painting in perfect joy. Renoir used to drop in at Bougival with a loaf of bread to keep Monet going. Five years later, Monet and his friends-Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley, among others-staged a group show of their work that the French public greeted with howls of scorn. One critic had dubbed the bunch Impressionists after the title of a Monet painting: Impression-Rising...
...hope of winning friends and allies, but it is quite another thing to contribute wisely, with due consideration for advantages to be gained (pressed) or lost ... Mr. Stevenson's "we want not sullen obedience, but friendly cooperation from our allies" was neither sporting nor germane. We have no abject servants abroad, and we seek none. We have friends, brothers in arms, allies and potential allies...
...Mexico City, Artist Diego Rivera, who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929. later compounded his sins by providing a home in exile for Leon Trotsky, made his third formal appeal to be taken back into the fold. He had been, said Rivera, "a coward, traitor, counterrevolutionary, abject degenerate" who would, if given another chance, pledge his art and reputation to the sole service of "Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism," the "only just and true political line...