Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Growing Isolation. The worst effect, the Bulletin believes, is the growing isolation of U.S. science, which has never been self-sufficient. It is now almost impossible to hold international scientific conferences in the U.S., and nearly as difficult to hire foreign scientists to teach at U.S. universities. Even those who...
The Regiment. Hero Guy Crouchback is a familiar Waugh character in that, dramatically speaking, he is not a hero at all. Like Waugh himself, Guy is a Roman Catholic romantic, but for the rest he is an older version of those earlier Waugh stooge-heroes whose very decency caused them...
3. A return to isolation.
A Shocked "Ooh." The "slaves" look with scorn on other U.S. Catholics, whom they regard as heretics for associating with Protestants and Jews. Most of them lave left their families for a semi-monastic life of prayer and preaching in Cambridge. In isolation, their cult has grown narrower in its...
¶Too many U.S. diplomats "lived in isolation" from the people among whom they were posted; "thereby we cut ourselves off from the essential knowledge . . ."