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Word: isolationism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Talent for Isolation. But Bowers damages his case immeasurably by overstating it. Essentially, he is retelling the same old preposterous melodrama. In his account, only Franco bombs and bullets ever kill women and children, only Franco soldiers ever murder their prisoners, only the Franco side ever lies. Frequently, Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Melodrama | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

At home, the damage can be estimated by viewing the extensive past contributions of foreign scientists, and the present isolation is mirrored in the steady decline here of international, scientific conferences. The International Congresses of Biochemistry, Psychology, and Genetics, have all refused to meet in the United States this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Door for Scientists | 5/14/1954 | See Source »

"Go Right Ahead." For the first time in five months, the general had come out of the rural isolation of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises (pop. 312) to exhort his withering but still formidable army into renewed assaults on the French government and its policies. For France's most powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: I Was the State | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

When a Kirkland man propounds the myth that his is the "friendly" House, the House with "spirit," he is subverting the ideal that his Master, Mason Hammond '25 once set forth for a House community: It must rest, he said, on a delicate balance between "pressure and laissez-faire, hollow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isolationism and Famed 'House Spirit' Maintain Healthy Balance at Kirkland | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

There are some genuine and valuable manifestations of House spirit and friendship like the annual Christmas Dinner and House Play; among the less valuable, albeit more robust, manifestations are the occasional beer-busts. Acting as a counter-balance is the spirit of isolation or sheer indifference which prevails among some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isolationism and Famed 'House Spirit' Maintain Healthy Balance at Kirkland | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

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