Word: isolationist
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Without Fair Hearing. Brewster also became deeply interested in politics. He opposed U.S. entry into World War II, joined the isolationist America First movement, even testified before a congressional committee against U.S. aid to Britain. He also argued-as some of his New Left students do today-that students should be permitted to attend peace rallies. Looking back, Brewster sees his position as defensible at the time, since, he thought, F.D.R. was pushing the U.S. toward war without a "fair hearing and popular debate...
...implications of what I'm saying might be interpreted as an isolationist stance, when in fact what I'm saying is that contact between Washington and Cambridge should not be institutionalized, but rather left up to individuals...
...ambition to participate in history and to shape the future. Their state of mind is marked by a vast indifference to big issues, and there is a feeling that they are incompetent to do much about the big issues." Modern men, Lippmann was led to conclude, "are predominantly isolationist...
Carmichael's solution is extremely popular at Negro gatherings in the ghetto, and will continue to gather momentum across the country as Negros become increasingly conscious of their "power to disrupt." But such an isolationist policy will sever communications between liberal whites and Negroes in the civil rights movement at a crucial juncture...
...number of Harvard students sent a letter to President Wilson in May of 1915 supporting his isolationist stand, and denoucing blind or pyrotechnic patriotism...