Word: backslide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sartre and Simone made far higher demands than traditional domestic fidelity. They faced the fact that from time to time, in order to fulfill themselves, they might have to live separately. Above all, their allegiance, unlike matrimony, was never to degenerate into mere duty-or habit. Sartre once almost backslid on this. Faced with their first temporary separation (he was offered a teaching job in Le Havre; she had one in Marseille), he asked her to marry him for real. But Simone was strong enough for both of them. She refused...
Long one of TV's remotest stars, Pixie Pundit David Brinkley confessed that he had finally become reconciled to autograph hounds. "Except," he backslid, "when I'm out somewhere with my children. I don't want them to get the idea their father is some kind of tinhorn celebrity-at least not until they're old enough to realize that this is an ephemeral, transitory, shallow and not very important kind of fame that can and will disappear even faster than it arrived...