Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maine de Biran was notable for not being representative of his time, and strove in his journal to record only personal emotions and the fruits of his philosophizing. He might have lived in any country at any time, and it is upon this isolation from the environment that Mr. Huxley...
Conscience Makes Cowards. Like American Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles and French Albert (The Plague) Camus, Italian Ennio Flaiano has found Africa a fertile field in which to cultivate an existentialist viewpoint. The unnamed lieutenant who narrates The Short Cut feels that he was the victim of events; even his...
Non-Dunster men attribute the friendly cohesiveness of the Funsters to their isolation. Funsters, themselves, admit there is something to this. Geographically, however, Dunster is no father from Sever than Eliot. It is removed, however, from the bulk of the Mount Auburn Street pinball havens, and hence, Dunster men strive...
Mr. Eliot's play is concerned with the anguish and isolation of a woman meant for sainthood but enmeshed in London's cocktail circuit.
In its self-consciously white isolation, Australia was long coolly scornful of its yellow-skinned Asiatic neighbors. But for the past few years, Australia's foreign policy toward its neighbors has become warm and friendly. This has brought a new embarrassment: Australia's immigration barriers are scarcely in...