Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural radicalism against consumerism were to spring up as it did 20 years ago, it would have to be less isolationist. Capitalism has helped build industries which increase human lifespans while at the same time promoting major social inequalities. Likewise, consumerism drags along a lot of dehumanization, but it also forces people to interact with each other. The choice is ours: to bash consumerism or to use the opportunity for progressive ends...
Conservative Protestant spokesmen, captive to their isolationist and even | extremist past, still exhibit far more skill at seizing attention and infuriating outsiders than at winning support from concerned Americans through cogent, reasonable discussion. The Rev. Jerry Falwell shares some of those limitations, and he displayed them last week. But at other times his reliable instincts tell him that a broad appeal is necessary, since Fundamentalists by themselves can never reshape a variegated nation. Only the American people, collectively, can produce a moral majority...
...father died when he was seven, and the boy was dedicated to his grandfather, the Senator who helped keep the U.S. out of the League of Nations after World War I and for whom young Cabot was named. In his early years serving in the Senate, Lodge was an isolationist like his forebear, but during World War II, he quit his Senate post to fight in the European theater. By the time he was re-elected to the Senate in 1946, he was an internationalist, convinced that the war had taught "the value of collective security." In the early 1950s...
Afundamental issue underlies these concerns: the authority of the papacy. In a pre-Christmas address to the Curia (Vatican bureaucracy), John Paul applauded "wholesome pluralism" within the church. But he warned against the dangers of "isolationist" and "centrifugal" forces that threaten the unity of Catholicism. The mission of the Pope and the Holy See, he said, "consists precisely in serving . . . universal unity." The center, in other words, must remain the center: Rome must decide what is Catholic and what...
...Democrats would have to disown the quasi-isolationist and quasi-pacifist positions of many liberals (which Walter Mondale did only partly toward the end of the campaign). Similarly, Reagan would have to continue distancing himself from the far right. There is a lot of room for him to do that without in any real sense "going soft." He can argue with reason that he is now able to negotiate from strength. A tough but realistic position on arms control may well win bipartisan approval...