Word: isolationism
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Deng actually delivered those remarks at the October meeting of the Central Advisory Commission, a grouping of the Communist Party's elder statesmen, but the full text had not been published before. In what was clearly a dramatic effort to give the reform movement even greater momentum, the country's...
From this point on, the stories grow increasingly less imitative and adaptive; a maturing style begins searching for a worthy subject. Increasingly, Garcia Márquez turns to the bizarre frustrations imposed on people, both wealthy and impoverished, who live in isolation from the world at large. There Are No...
For Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, last week's visit by King Hussein of Jordan was another step toward ending Egypt's isolation within the Arab world, which began when President Anwar Sadat accepted the Camp David accords and subsequently signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. For...
A week earlier, the Polish leader's efforts to thaw relations with the West had suffered a serious setback. West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had postponed a visit to Warsaw, largely because Polish officials told him it would be inappropriate to visit the grave of Father Jerzy...
Out at sea the Bather confronts the social and personal isolation of her sex; other authors would resort to hell, assassinations and plagues to illustrate such existential loneliness. Her plight, both sartorial and emotional, are relieved by a simple, silent act of kindness that shows how much can be communicated...