Word: capitulationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It may have been an acquired characteristic built up over the centuries ob black bondage. It is the thing I've been running from all my life. When it caught up to me in 1957 I was 15 years old and not very well equipped to deal with sudden changes...
Radio and television broadcasting is cheap-jack today, it was yesterday, and so it will probably remain. Its history is pockmarked with compromise, indecision, and capitulation before the law of the fast buck. If Erik Barnouw's three-volume history proves anything, it is that when responsibility for "the public...
After commenting that "Williams' anger over the slow progress of the fight for equality is more understandable than some of his charges. His depiction of 'white power' a 'a marsh underfoot for anyone not white . . . treacherous and deadly' is, of course, wildly exaggerated," Time concluded its article with a forceful...
The adverse effects of this decision were immediate-if not immediately understood by King and his associates. "The white press so thoroughly indoctrinated King and his people with the idea that the capitulation (of the Northern-owned Montgomery bus company) was a victory for blacks... (that) they believed it: believed...
Kill or Cure. The capitulation of the postal union's leadership is being hailed as a victory for Ted Heath's hard-line stand against inflationary wage demands. After Heath's apparent victory over the Electrical Trade Union workers in December, though, a board of inquiry subsequently...