Word: isolationism
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The United States, which had been vacillating between isolation and intervention, suddenly grew solidly united as President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Congress declared war against the Axis powers.
Some of this isolation from the public has proceeded from pundits misinterpreting the significance of Barry Goldwater's run for president in 1964. Conservatives, knowing the strength of their movement, came gradually; to distrust the mainstream press which dismissed conservatism as irrelevant.
"WHY WOULD I LIE TO YOU?" THE MOTHer asks. "Because you can," her blind son replies. Martin (Hugo Weaving), hero of Jocelyn Moorhouse's PROOF, takes pictures to document a world he cannot see or trust. Should he trust Celia (Genevieve Picot), who desires him even more than she hates...
The ill-attended ceremony in Belgrade symbolized the diplomatic isolation that the U.S. and other powers are trying to impose on Serbia. Their intent is to force the fiercely nationalistic leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to stop what looks to most of the world like aggression against the breakaway republics of the...
The Western allies' failure to concur on a policy is partly a refraction of concerns that they might only inflame or, worse, get bogged down in Yugoslavia's mess. Diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions against Serbia have not yet been pursued with any seriousness because no one knows if such...