Word: capitulationism
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Roger was still there for the Coda; when the darkness of city life re-emerged as meth-amphetamine. It was a ritual victory for plastic and concrete, and Roger, after getting ripped-off and beat up, came back East. But since it all happens about a year late in Cambridge...
Debasement of the language cannot be blamed on protesters alone. The news media, the advertising agencies, the Government-even President Nixon himself-have all helped flatten and attenuate the English tongue. When radicals misuse language, they are only applying the lesson they have been so well taught by their society...
When peace comes through appeasement and capitulation that sellout is intellectual treason. A concise and clear set of rules for campus conduct should be established, transmitted to incoming freshmen, and enforced enforced-with immediate expulsion the penalty for serious violations. The rule of reason is the guiding principle in an...
The Queen. played with amusing coquetry by Marilyn Ann Carington, conveys an air of nuanced gentility, not without redemptive power in Genet's scheme of values. She is the world-weary purveyor of artifice-a figure "half mythological and half conventional" like Mme, de Vionnet in The Ambassadors. Beneath her...
Judging by initial reports from the collapsed Biafran pocket, the sword of genocide was a lesser threat than the strangling knot of slow starvation. Some Biafrans, according to relief workers, had not eaten for eight days before the capitulation. Afterward, they fled into the bush, where there was nothing to...