Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they converged by the hundreds at the Statler-Hilton Ballroom on election night. The McGovern debacle and those "other 49 states" were preempted for the evening as all televisions in the ballroom were tuned to local elections. Anticipating a long-sought victory, Moakley supporters left no room for defeatist sentiment at their gathering...
...nationalist speakers. In retrospect, Petain is recognized to have been a symbol of safety and accomodation. So many wanted a way out, and Petain was acceptable as an old man who couldn't harm anyone. The film's critique of him is personal--he was very much a defeatist--but it holds him as symbol, not scapegoat. The Sorrow's shame is collective...
...Wilson steadfastly avoided defeatist romantic posturings. Intending to become a political reporter, he worked briefly for the New York Evening Sun (though trained in literature, Wilson wanted "to try to get to know something of all the main departments of human thought"), but was forced to leave the job to work with an Army medical unit in order to avoid being drafted. In France, Wilson stoically endured the war, stacking dead bodies in their graves like so many cords of wood. He began his career as a literary critic upon returning to New York two years later but difficulties continued...
...have become more a curse than a blessing, may now actually be doing the cause of South Viet Nam's independence more harm than good." The problem, says Worsthorne, is that American troops-once necessary to inspirit the laggard South Vietnamese-have become dangerously demoralized. "Drug-saturated, mutinous, defeatist, incompetent, they constitute more of a threat to the South Vietnamese than do the Viet Cong," he contends...
...prayer. Such, an analysis was naive, but entirely understandable in terms of liberal response to the civil rights movement of the fifties. And, in its blind way, it was hopeful. But Soldier Blue throws the problem of the Indian back into the last century. It is nothing but defeatist. Its only purpose is to assuage liberal guilt...