Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To a large extent, therefore, the men of ideas have been merely cultivating their own gardens. Instead of one mission, they have many: they live as both a part of society and apart from it. The artist's fate, says Critic Edmund Wilson, is like that of Philoctetes, the...
Mendès seemed ready to return to the political isolation in which he had wandered for so many years. He has made no secret of his belief that the Fourth Republic will collapse within months, intends to stump the country in favor of a recast constitution.
We do not accept it, however, under the guise of a "timely" study of the individuals who come and go and create this university; we do not accept his confusion, his failure to conclude what to do with the banished "good scholar" students and professors; we do not accept the...
The Museum Piece. At the same time, he justified Bhutan's continued isolation: "Almost 98% of Bhutanese own their own farms. If we opened our country to foreign aid now, India, and perhaps even Red China, would rush in, overwhelm us and reduce our people to a servant class...
This was good, not bad, news to 250 delegates from 51 nations assembled in Rome. It meant that leprosy victims, so long shunted into isolation or secret shame by society's ancient fear of the disease, are now coming forward voluntarily to disclose their ailment and seek treatment. Doctors...