Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There I was, as recently as a month and a half ago, sitting in isolation in my academic ivory tower in New York, and lo, the call came to me to perform a great public service in Washington.
Died. Ataulfo Argenta, 44, Spam's top conductor, who got into hot water (in 1954) for deploring his country's musical isolation under Dictator Franco ("There is only one alternative: renovation or death"), later recanted to save his job; of a heart attack; in Madrid.
The only publication in Poland that seems immune to party lockjaw is a twelve-page satirical weekly with the apt name of Szpilki (Needles). Garishly printed on cheap paper, cocky, 24-year-old Szpilki (pronounced "shpeelky") sticks its needles into Communist hides from Moscow to Warsaw. In a cartoon deriding...
With its abundant symbolism, the story operates on two levels, plot and metaphor, and needs a more carefully worked out and comprehensive dominant metaphor into which the particulars can fit. Kozol seems to have tried using the seasons this way but never fully develops them. A consequent lack of tonal...
No man knows more about surviving at the South Pole than Siple (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), the obvious man to establish the first year-round colony in the world's deep freeze. As a Sea Scout, he went to the Antarctic 29 years ago with Admiral Richard E. Byrd...