Word: capitulationism
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The Brown New Yorker is everything that the Shawn-Gottlieb New Yorker was not. It is loud, bustling and blighted with that bane of modern life: relevance. Its articles are closely linked to current events, with the occasional bit of controversy thrown in for good measure. Its bright, wearyingly busy...
In the biggest retreat he has made so far to achieve passage of his enormous budget package, President Bill Clinton abandoned his complicated $72 million energy tax to placate Senate Democrats who opposed it. Clinton's almost instant capitulation provoked an outcry among Democrats in the House, who had already...
Like the fighters in the field, the self-styled parliamentarians saw acceptance of the U.N.-mediated accord as an act of capitulation to a worldwide coalition set on annihilating the Serbian nation. "If we accept," said Radoslav Brdjanin, an ultra-nationalist leader of Banja Luka, "it means ) we fought for...
Analysts say mainliners are suffering because they have failed to transmit a compelling Christian message to their own children or to anybody else. "One thing about the Episcopalians, Methodists and Catholics," says Margaret Poloma, professor of sociology at the University of Akron, "is that people in leadership positions are out...
The Westminster School's capitulation sends a discouraging message to other religious schools. It is up to the secular intellectual community to expand its definition of "tolerance" and "inclusiveness" to include toleration for the rights and needs of those who believe, in the words of Robert Frost, that good fences...