Word: capitulationism
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Two Vietnamese students at Harvard talked last week about the effect the war and its ending has had on their lives. Suong-Hong Nguyen-Thi is a senior at Radcliffe majoring in economics. She had planned to return to her home in Saigon after graduation to work in her family...
Few South Vietnamese doubt that essentially all this means capitulation to the Communists. Nor does the President of the U.S. doubt it. The Ford Administration was making its own capitulation?to the insurmountable resistance both in Congress and among the public to continued U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. In the...
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...