Word: negativistic
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...Great Society social programs of the '60s, does he believe, as does Carter, that "Government cannot eliminate poverty...or save the cities...or cure illiteracy?" Does the man who once marched with Cesar Chavez and worked diligently for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 accept our modern-day Grover Cleveland's negativist beliefs on these issues...
...down the left, telling them that abstract discussions were no help: "You can't do anything with the colored balloons of philosophic formulas and quick and easy slogans." Brandt defended the party's coalition with the Free Democrats and lashed out at the opposition Christian Democrats for negativist policies. The C.D.U., he declared, "is becoming a security risk for our country...
...Navy cross, Rep. Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey (R-Calif.) has now applied to the presidential fight. Never subtle or sophisticated, McCloskey has spoken out viciously against the present Administration with relentless consistency. He calls the Nixon trip to Peking, "grandiose gimmickry", the Nixon Administration "embittered, hostile, negativist" and party loyalists, "criminals and prostitutes...
...Indeed, the first act's very power of assault gives to what follows a diminished impact. But what follows has also too little organic development. The play never really advances from a kind of one-man show to any kind of social drama. To be sure, a negativist, no-exit attitude that shies away from moral crisis cannot develop very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony. Having shown how angry Jimmy can be, the play chiefly thereafter shows how personally irresistible he is. Perhaps a little concentration on human...
...Hammarskjold's sense of mission derives from two opposing forces that seem forever to be driving him on. Hammarskjold, by his own reading of himself, is simultaneously a mystic and a materialist, a romantic and a realist. As a student, he was deeply influenced by the negativist philosophy of Axel Hagerstrom, who taught that metaphysics is dishonest and only matter real. The influence lingers: when Hammarskjold is talking business, he is as hard as stone. Yet the "Great Deflater," as an old friend calls Hammarskjold, writes intense romantic lyrics and goes roaming through the Lapland mountains in search...