Word: isolationism
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Waldheim denounced the U.S. decision as "dismaying and incomprehensible" and told Austrians in a nationwide TV address, "I have a clear conscience." Many Austrians rallied to his defense, feeling that he had not been allowed to defend himself in what amounted to an "inquisition," as one Vienna newspaper put it...
Part of Stellenbosch's appeal comes from its isolation. The 14,000 students usually dress as if they were attending classes at a seaside resort: men in shorts or jeans and running shoes, women in white or pastel-colored blouses and slacks. They stroll hand in hand with bookbags over...
In their isolation, the two landlocked Afrikaner republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State lost all contact with their Dutch origins. The Afrikaners had their own language now and their own lands. There was no thought of ever going home to Europe because there was no longer any home...
Walesa begins by recounting how his family struggled to survive on its farm in eastern Poland after his father was sent to a concentration camp by the Germans during World War II. Only two months after his release in 1945, Walesa's father died. At 24, the young rural mechanic...
While standing in front of the closed door of Angela Lansbury's dressing room, I learned more about the woman than any interview could have revealed. It was a door like any other door, just as the woman it shielded was, under the tinsel of Broadway, made of flesh and...