Word: escapist
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There has always been a lyrical and escapist streak in Jamon Thurber. IN the midst of his satire and anecdote--all very much of this world--it has showed itself quietly, in a series of children's books and fairy stories: "Many Moons," "The Great Quilow," "The White Door." The latest in this line is "The 13 Clocks...
...This] is a fact of considerable importance. For not only Trotskyists and some Socialists disdainfully treat Stalin as a traitor to the true Marxian-Leninist world-proletarian revolution and as a common nationalistic dictator-another Hitler. Many of the most powerful Western statesmen and military leaders accept this escapist myth...
Thousands of other Britons sought spring on the Continent, which they regard as economically unsound and politically untouchable. For the long Easter weekend, a Continent-bound plane left British airfields every five minutes. In April's opening week there were 8,000 such escapist flights from England...
Christianity is hardly an escapist philosophy, Miller answered, but is a doctrine of "integration in the deepest sense...
...proper place. High up among the feckless "aVisto-crats" who plugged their ears to the revolution's rumble was portly Andrei Plakhin, Soviet Ambassador to Denmark, who came to Marvel's party dressed as an estate manager in Czarist days. Not to be outdone as an escapist, Mine. Plakhin looked fetching as a simple peasant maid...