Word: ostrich
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Kenneth S. Lynn, chairman of the board of tutors in History and Literature, hailed the proposed changes, saying "History and Literature cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. It is terribly unrealistic for us to go on with a quota set nearly 25 years...
...continuing question of "Who Lost China" would indicate that some change has taken place in Asia; yet present policy seems to ignore the fact that Chiang Kai shek no longer rules over 500,000,000 Chinese. Like the ostrich who tries to wish away unpleasant facts by burying his head in the sand, the U.S. stubbornly continues to recognize the Nationalists as the government of China. Unfortunately the revolution is over, and Mao Tse-Tung has implanted in China a ruthless but stable regime. Almost every Asian expert--from professors to State Department advisers to private observers--agrees that...
...Adlai Stevenson says . . . "We are never going to solve many of the hard problems of the world, but will simply have to learn to live with them for years and maybe for centuries." What an ostrich-like policy-or rather a shocking lack...
...Nationalists will choose between two principal candidates to succeed Malan: Finance Minister Nicolaas Havenga, 72, and long-necked Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 61, a onetime ostrich farmer who runs the Nationalist Party machine and who is even more fanatically racialist than Daniel Malan. Last week retiring Dr. Malan gave his nod to Havenga, the more moderate of the two but nonetheless a man who could be trusted to hew to the harsh line laid out by Preacher Malan...
...shot-down R.A.F. pilot I spent four years and 359 days in Germany reflecting on the virtues of appeasement of totalitarian governments and cannot but be dismayed at the ostrich-rump aspect presented by so many British leaders today. Your Senator Knowland seems to me to be your most intelligent and sensible statesman, and it is ironical that he is today doing his best to apprise the free world of its dangers from the world-Communism concept in precisely the same way as Churchill warned Britain [in 1938-39] of Nazi strength and aims . . . Peaceful coexistence is a dangerous delusion...