Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Roosevelt would become President was evident even to his growing list of enemies; after all, Teddy was Governor of New York at the age of 40. Yet nothing came easily to the man who thought "Bully!" was a rallying cry, not an accusation. He fought for every office: erstwhile...
But for Levenson the political movements in China and in the United States were not separable from the struggles of people defining their relations to their pasts and the worlds around them. Levenson publicly stated his opposition to American involvement in Vietnam from 1965 on. But he was moved more...
While the Palestinian problem remains unresolved, the main risk in the Egyptian-Israeli peace is that other Arab states may persist in viewing the pact as a bilateral deal that ignores broader Arab interests. Such a view could result in the near complete isolation of Egypt and Israel and in...
Director Sellars and set designer Gary Lovesky have created a visually breathtaking production--they dragged 30 live birch trees from the Harvard Forest and ringed them around the spare, vast, white-draped stage. Huge birches and the bare exposed Loeb stage dwarf the actors and frame Sellar's epic interpretation...
Author Flannery O'Connor spent most of her adult life with her mother on a dairy farm just outside Milledgeville, Ga., up the road a piece from Macon and a middling way from Atlanta. Her isolation there began involuntarily. At 25 she was already a noteworthy Southern expatriate and...