Word: escapist
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...Blowing hot and cold on this escapist straw in the wind.* Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, now being sponsored over an NBC network by Sweetheart Soap, last week chatted mildly about vacations with her secretary, Malvina Thompson, then, a few days later, inquired of her listeners: How Can People Live-Not Die-for Democracy...
Rending were the birth pangs. They had a nightmare quality-of belated haste to aid the Allies, to beat warring men in machines with impersonal, insufficient machines without men; then, slowly, a blank awareness that this escapist outlet was no outlet...
...Helping Mr. Churchill's very proud but none too agile Royal Navy last week were two of the three escapist destroyers of the Polish Navy. They joined in a North Sea gunning match with several Nazi airplanes. In the skirmish, nobody got hurt...
Transcendentalists complained that he was too practical ("Strictly speaking," said Henry, "morality is not healthy"). Religious folk called him an infidel ("One world at a time," said Thoreau when a friend came to his death bed to talk about the next world). "Practical men" called him a dreamer and escapist, were annoyed at his criticism of their pioneering ("a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys...
Canceling few scheduled books, British publishers pushed books on war background and looked for new ones, issued many a reprint such as Aurel Kolnai's The War Against the West. At the same time, demand grew for escapist romances...