Word: retreated
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Indeed, I would say that during the seventies, the United States has grown more truculent, more xenophobic, and more cut off from the rest of the world--though it is by no means the nation in defeat or retreat many claim it to be. On the contrary, as the sale of bluejeans and jazz and rock and other popular records indicates, it is a model for much of the rest of the world which may attack us ideologically and envy us while imitating some of the features of our society which many educated Americans would consider our least attractive ones...