Word: capitulationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For Lipset, to give in to the "anti-intellectualism" of the new student politics, to compromise or waver in the face of its challenge, is intolerable. Capitulation of any sort--and Lipset suggests that such capitulation did take place after the Bust of University Hall--would strike something of a...
Gargantuan Exercise. Even the World Council of Churches is "a gargantuan exercise in such cultural capitulation," said the Rev. Richard Neuhaus, an antiwar activist and pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Brooklyn. Neuhaus and Fellow Lutheran Peter Berger, iconoclastic author and sociologist at Rutgers, were the originators of...
Giscard sees inflation, currently running at about 15%, as the key threat. Polls show, however, that most Frenchmen worry more about job security. The President has argued that giving in to the strikers-the postal workers are demanding across-the-board wage increases of about $43 a month-would amount...
But many unsettling details mottle Caramanlis's political career. In 1959, he affirmed a characteristic policy of capitulation by concluding the Zurich agreement establishing conditional independence for Cyprus, to the disadvantage of the ethnic Greeks--an agreement that contributed to the current Cyprus tragedy. During his eight years in power...
U.S. officials believe that the time for concerted action against OPEC may be approaching, in part because there is currently a surplus of 1.5 million bbl. of oil per day?or 2.7% of the total used ?on the world market. Reasons: the fourfold increase in the price of oil...