Word: isolationism
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What is the explanation? Forman has the best answer. "If people like it, they like it for the same reason the play excited me. It was a very entertaining evening in the theater, and yet I learned a lot I had never known before. I believe that people also identify...
No one understands the value of civilian collaboration better than the Sandinistas, themselves former guerrillas. The resettlement program, under way since January, has been speeded up in recent weeks as the government attempts to systematically deprive the contras of a popular base that provides food, refuge and, occasionally, recruits. Described...
Literature about the Black middle-class has tended to be self-consciously critical, defensive and guilt-ridden. A character like Toni Morrison's Jadine, a Black model who flees her roots and exploits whites in Tar Baby, seems to affirm the idea of the desolate isolation of a young, privileged...
Cosmopolitan does not entail forsaking one's "roots" or one's "poorer bretheren"--as Mr. Farley condescendingly refers to the economically deprived members of our race. On the contrary, the "cosmopolitan imperative," rather than being a call to assimilate, to deny our origins in the ruthless pursuit of personal advancement...
Jackson said divestiture "would set the pace for other universities. At Yale, Brown, Columbia-the students on those compuses would then have the momentum [to push their schools to divest]. The Harvard move would not be left in isolation."