Word: isolationism
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Despite their physical ordeal, many AIDS sufferers say that the worst aspect of their condition is the sense of isolation and personal rejection. "It's like wearing the scarlet letter," says a 35-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer who was forced out of a job at a top Texas law...
"The issue here is not politics, but good and evil. And we must never confuse them, for I have seen the SS at work and I have seen their victims . . . Sons watched helplessly their fathers being beaten to death. Mothers watched their children die of hunger. There was . . . terror, fear...
Yet coming to terms with oneself also means coming to terms with responsibilities. Taking responsibility for one's actions and decisions seems out of fashion in the atomic age, but in that TIME article of Aug. 20, 1945, James Agee immediately saw that individual responsibility was at the heart of...
After receiving his doctorate, he embarked on research expeditions through New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, where he was able to prove what Darwin did not—that new species arise from the geographical isolation of populations. This led to his definition of species as “an...
Having grown up in isolation with her father on a secluded island which was once the site of a 1960s commune of which Jack was a part, Rose has had very little contact with the world besides her father and the man who delivers her flowers (she has a deep...