Word: quietism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reliance, personal responsibility, and equality. Preparation, study, free choice, courage, resolution: these are its images and emblems." The women's movement, she points out, is antipathetic to "the youth culture, which appeared more as a refusal, a pause in the labor of the vineyard, sometimes a sort of quietism...
Anyone who has begun to wonder whether such quietism may make it all but useless for men to go on bearing witness to atrocity should ponder the manner and matter of this book created three decades ago but not published until...
...nostalgic return to the campus quietism of the fifties, a few hundred students were on hand to follow the elephant from the Lampoon's Castle to the Yard. Every effort was made to avoid trampling the newly seeded lawns between Widener Library and Memorial Church, where the brief, but telling, rally took place...
...only make a strong case stronger since they stem from a record of substance and consistency. As William Shannon wrote succinctly in a recent issue of The New Republic. "Humphrey, to his credit, during the difficult years of the '50's committed none of the political mortal sins; cynicism, quietism, opportunism." In fact, since then Humphrey, unlike other liberals like Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania or Paul Douglas of Illinois, has gained considerable influence, evidenced by his role as Majority whip, and yet has compromsed issues not principles in doing...
...Wilbur, Wilcox, Whiteside and du Bouchet want a continued comfortable academic environment in which the AYD can have a chapter, I suggest they give some active support to the social-democratic quietism which the CRIMSON'S wellargued editorial recommended. James A. Walker