Word: isolationism
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Far more compelling than rhetoric, however, was the visual image of Gary Hart: rough-hewn and handsome, dressed in a dark blue suit and trademark black cowboy boots, standing in splendid isolation halfway up a mountain. The lone political warrior towering above his rivals is precisely Hart's position nine...
The convention, he said, would "look at the drift away from multicultural education toward isolation."
He called for a university summit meeting to discuss dwindling numbers of minorities in schools, as well as other changes he said were causing a dangerous isolation in U.S. education.
The Japanese capacity for change is nothing short of astounding. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed a squadron of U.S. naval ships into Japan's waters in 1853 and demanded an opening of trade, the Japanese reacted swiftly. They cast off 250 years of rigid isolation and rapidly transformed their island...
It is as an earnest attempt to redress a festering grievance, not as film art, that The Hanoi Hilton deserves attention. Writer-Director Lionel Chetwynd's intention is to re-create the life endured in North Viet Nam's Hoa Lo prison by American POWs, in some cases for as...