Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As so often happens in final exams, the last minute cramming was wholly unnecessary. The question: identify five dishes and two wines on the now-famous menu of a royal banquet given in 1939 by King George VI for French President Albert Lebrun. The items: Consommé Quenelles, Filet de...
Unless he makes this shift, the intellectual-runs the risk of being completely isolated. In the U.S., says Molnar, this sense of isolation is especially acute. Without the classical education that Europeans have in common, the American intellectuals present no common front; since the American people are well off materially...
The pioneer, and the biggest (circ. 5,650,000), picture magazine in the world, LIFE uses only one in 50 of the half-million pictures its editors look at every year. For the one in 50, LIFE photographers often go to extraordinary lengths. Samples: ¶ On the frozen fastness of...
Studies of 8,000 of the "worst cases" of delinquency at Bellevue show that the problem always has several causes. The commonest of these are: "Gross deprivation of love, severe punishment and brutality at home, enforced submissiveness and isolation, learning difficulties and organic disorders-especially of the central nervous system...
"We have by unanimous votes undertaken to lead the peoples who are Under France's protection to a position where they can manage their own affairs. This solemn promise-can France dream of failing to abide by it? No! These countries, whom France has civilized and enriched, she will...