Word: defeatists
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Oppenheim-who cannot be unaware of the great strides Harvard and out society has made in changing its "culture" over the years--adopts a defeatist attitude that seems highly suspect...
...United Auto Workers to promote Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 re-re-re-election. Joe, a burly blond workingman, must assure that the Win the War Special (a high-speed train with F.D.R.'s smiling profile on the engine) gets to Washington ahead of the G.O.P.'s 1929 Defeatist Limited. Directed by the immortal Chuck Jones, with music by Earl Robinson and E.Y. Harburg, Hell-Bent for Election is visually imaginative and giddily unfair (for a moment the Republican villain metamorphoses into Hitler). It anchors a smart package of satire and archival treasures. Vote Yes on Cartoongate. --By Richard Corliss
This, Wright points out, is in contrast not only to the findings of the Seminar but also to Johnson's conclusion, which he finds defeatist. "'The street level of what Johnson is saying is, 'We can just believe the Bible and don't need to worry about it.' But it plays right into the hands of the Seminar, and there's a huge price to be paid for that. The challenge of the Enlightenment has always been, 'Oh, we know what Jesus was, and it shows Christianity was a mistake.' I'm trying to say, It's hard work...
...assume we'll get beat most of the time," Pyka said. "We're hoping to take seventh. But that's not really a defeatist attitude. It's like Harvard [men's basketball] playing the Celtics...
...With the prospect of dying he isn't hopeless," says R. Michael Lopez '97. "He's not just defeatist. He knows he already has what he needs. He has something to look forward...