Word: capitulationism
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Is he really more in touch with his own dark spirituality? Here, as in Sam Peckinpah's recent Straw Dogs - another, artistically less successful movie about a test - the director's prodigious skill cannot conceal a rather shabby and cynical intellectual construct. In Deliver ance, man must become...
THOUGH good things have a way of coming to an end, the bad ones don't depart unless we force them to. Of all the issues of the last year, the Indochina War remains the most persistent, the most cruel, the most shameful. Four years ago, few would have predicted...
Activist Kate Millett's scorching Sexual Politics (TIME, Aug. 31, 1970) drew a frenetic reply in Norman Mailer's celebrated Harper's article, "The Prisoner of Sex," which excoriated many of Millett's arguments but concluded in grudging capitulation: "Women must have their rights to a...
America essentially negotiated out of weakness despite all the media hype. As the late Edgar Snow reported, the Chinese believe that the failures of the Cambodians and Laotian invasions led Nixon to recognize his ultimate defeat in S.E. Asia and of the strategies of containment and enticement. With intensive "protective...
In essence America abandons its claim to any say on the final status of Taiwan and agrees to let this internal question be settled "by the Chinese themselves on a bilateral basis. The Chinese were generous in their return concessions. Nothing at all was mentioned about America's defense commitments...