Word: retreatism
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...can’t just make these small changes that do nothing to fix the problem,” says Sarah B. Levit-Shore ’04, a CASV member. “The change from sufficient corroboration to any information a student can provide is a huge retreat...
...institutes are places for quiet retreat and scholarly work, but are designed as communities as well...
...most, this life would be a chaotic nightmare. Haiti is the sort of place a starry-eyed student might visit, working there for a few months before beating a swift retreat back to a comfortable suburban practice in the States...
...insistence on innate explanations of human abilities had led him to espouse eugenics, a term he coined. Eugenics was enthusiastically adopted by the Nazis to justify their campaign of mass murder against the disabled and the Jews. Tainted by this association, the idea of innate behavior was in full retreat for most of the middle years of the century. In 1958, however, two men began the counterattack on behalf of nature. Noam Chomsky, in his review of a book by the behaviorist B.F. Skinner, argued that it was impossible to learn human language by trial and error alone; human beings...
...beautiful world in which to retreat and to imagine,” he says...