Word: defeatists
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...Lausanne agreement last summer came as a triumphant challenge to the defeatist attitude in regard to international conferences which had resulted from many previous failures. It is still true, however, that unless some substantial measure of agreement is arrived at beforehand, they tend to degenerate into battle-grounds of conflicting national biases...
...life. The reasons for these happenings are bona fide. They are found in Sebastian's genius, in his egotism, his self-sufficiency, which enable him to disregard the minutiae that make up most of Caryl's life. They also are found in Caryl's defeatist recognition of Sebastian's genius...
...defeatist, MacLeish thinks "Life is a haft that has fitted the palms of many." No expatriate, he thinks a poet's place is in the home country...
...used to be the custom for the CRIMSON to print one or two editorials a year suggesting that the time be changed. Gradually a defeatist attitude crept in; crusading ardor lessened; masterly logic was presented with a yawn. No authorities seemed to be worried because it was absurd to waken the whole Yard so that thirty men could attend chapel one hour and three-quarters later. Even the individual Seniors each year passed from active objection to torpid acceptance, and so each new class has had the bell wished upon it. This protest, too, offered more in sorrow than...
...once that it is impossible to hope for anything like an immediate modification of existing conditions. But the drys know well that by patiently collecting grains of sand they have turned the United States into a legal desert. The modificationists might well copy their tactics and by abandoning their defeatist regrets, set patiently to work collecting drops of water with which to cultivate a more livable temperate zone...