Word: defeatist
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...Utter Destitution." The American people, he writes, have too easily swallowed the Galbraithian notion that the U.S. has all the production it needs. Americans have become "defeatist" about their own economy and in the last decade have settled for one of the lowest rates of growth in the world, which Myrdal calculates at a meager 1 %, a figure below the estimates of most other economists. Seven percent of the American people live in what Myrdal calls "utter destitution," e.g., individuals with an annual income under $1,000, families with an annual income under...
Women are always serious about love, but Doris Lessing is more than serious: she is downright glum or defeatist. She writes about people broken in love with the doom-laden tones of a Thomas Hardy telling of the time of the breaking of nations...
Dangerous & Defeatist. The speech was also carefully-and eloquently-worded. Excerpts...
...many of us think peace is impossible. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable-that mankind is doomed-that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concepts of universal peace and good will. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams, but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal...
...argument was also advanced that Mr. Wilson possesses a defeatist attitude. In support of this Mr. Cotton cited a statement appearing in the Boston Herald in which Mr. Wilson was quoted as saying that Penn and Princeton, would win the rest of their games. The CRIMSON writer questioned me regarding this statement before he wrote his article. At that time I told him that Coach Wilson had been misquoted and that he had told the team that he had been misquoted shortly after the statement appeared. Despite this correction Mr. Cotton used the article as grounds for indicting Mr. Wilson...