Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important symbol for (like Dean John Monro and many others) I don't want to see students made even more cautious by such reminders of potential danger in political involvement; and I believe such an involvement to be one of the essential qualities of education. And, as for the defeatist group of students who feel, "What's the point of making a fight," I can only testify from my own experience that one doesn't know how many allies one has until one makes a fight (or enemies either), and that in this case there are many people, including government...
...would like to see the cutoff point raised from the current U.S. average of 5 years 9 months to about 5 years 11 months. They explain that the younger the child the less his chances of adjusting to first-grade work; early failure at the blackboard can induce a defeatist attitude that endures for years. Physically as well as mentally, say the educators, waiting is wise. Studies have shown that four out of five children are still normally farsighted at the age of six, are handicapped in reading until about six months later. But these arguments do not carry...
...hydroelectric power development. If Parliament balked at any significant part of his program, confident John Diefenbaker would call an early election. Said cautious Louis St. Laurent: "It does not seem to us in the official Opposition appropriate to move the traditional vote of want of confidence." Taunted Diefenbaker: "A defeatist attitude...
THERE are some who say that we cannot enjoy the blessings of progress without incurring in some degree the ravages of inflation. I don't believe it. I refuse to adopt the defeatist position that inflation is the alternative to unemployment...
These views hot up the collars of classic economists such as Dean Neil H. Jacoby of the business school of the University of California at Los Angeles. In the Harvard Business Review he called Slichter the exponent of a "defeatist school," which is coldly callous to the fact that creeping inflation has "pauperized countless retired and disabled American citizens" living on fixed incomes. Jacoby urges the Government to make its goal an "absolutely stable price level." This means stopping the wage-price spiral by tightening credit and reducing federal spending, leading to less buying, bigger inventories, production cuts, lower profits...