Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Danish ballet, artistically isolationist, has stayed close to home for most of its proud, 202-year history. The opening-night program in London was chosen to underline the company's age and traditions. It began with a gay trifle called The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master, and moved on through an unabashedly romantic La Sylphide (1832), in which a forest witch vamps a young Scot (to unfamiliar music by Hermann Lovenskjold). The piece offered a show-stopping Scottish dance and was full of good-humored stage tricks (a sylph vanishes, later is seen flying up into...
...into contributing to the Independent, including Andrew Mellon, Anna Louise Strong, Hilaire Belloc, Frederick Lewis Allen ("Mahjong in One Lesson") and John Dewey. Politically, Herter followed the Republican line, but sometimes the line chafed. He was a strong champion of the League of Nations, a scornful baiter of old Isolationist Henry Cabot Lodge, and he never hesitated to lash the administration in Washington...
...American Constitution was framed for an isolationist state...
...than setting higher tariffs and new import quotas and pumping more aid into Europe, Congress should give Eisenhower's proposed Study Commission a chance to formulate a sensible tariff policy. It should extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements, following the International Business Machine slogan "THINK," rather than racing into costly, isolationist barriers to trade...
...country's publications. Most of them devoted columns to the immensity of Malenkov's torso, which was the only concrete thing not state in Who's Who. But the News editors made some positive evaluations of the dictator. On March 13, "Tomorrow" explained, "Malenkov is untried, probably isolationist at heart, without knowledge of the world outside Russia, inherently cautious. Malenkov, even if he tries to be tough, will frighten less than Stalin". A week later, the editors reconsidered: "Malenkov is a much more dangerous man than Stalin. He's less cautious, more daring, more disdainful of words from the West...