Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Triumph seemed to bring no surcease to him. He withdrew into a seclusion even deeper and more impenetrable than in his years of struggle. Isolation had become almost a spiritual necessity to this withdrawn, lonely and tormented man. It was hard to avoid the impression that Nixon, who thrived on...
What extraordinary vehicles destiny selects to accomplish its design. This man, so lonely in his hour of triumph, so ungenerous in some of his motivations, had navigated our nation through one of the most anguishing periods in its history. He had striven for a revolution in American foreign policy so...
"We cannot go any further as women in isolation," Freidan told the audience, adding that although the help men have offered, such as doing the laundry and clearing the table, appears minimal, they should not be criticized.
Where a despot of either the right or the left has ruled in relative isolation, he has been more likely to fall of his own weight and more vulnerable to internal enemies. To wit: the Greek Colonels, who were America's sons of bitches, and Sukarno of Indonesia, who...
Such moments of depression are rare, but they are an occupational hazard. Feasting or dieting, fussed over or not, a barnstorming opera singer spends long hours of isolation in hotels, studying, resting (Pavarotti sleeps ten to twelve hours before a performance) or simply killing time. Pavarotti's wife Adua joins...