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...radical from the mid-West says right after Christmas vacation, boy, I can't go back there again. Then after Easter recess, a lot more begin to realize that Cambridge is their real milieu. A few, perhaps, try a final summer at home, but it rarely works. They too flee back to Cambridge in panic. And so, one day, you suddenly hear yourself saying. "I've got to get home." And home means good old Harvard College. Cambridge, Massachusetts. And that...
There were setbacks in China: Ho was forced to flee to Moscow in 1927, after the Chinese Nationalists broke with their Soviet advisers and began massacring Communists. A year later, disguised as a shaven-headed Buddhist monk, Ho turned up in the Thai Northeast to organize support among Vietnamese, then traveled to Hong Kong on Moscow's orders to end a quarrel among other Vietnamese Communists. Ho succeeded: the party that he founded there in 1930 has survived?with two changes of name?down to the present. He was jailed briefly by the British, then fled to Shanghai...
...German-born daughter of Novelist Thomas Mann, her self a highly regarded author noted for her powerfully anti-Nazi writings in the 1930s; of a brain tumor; in Zurich, Switzerland. Like her Nobel prizewinning father, Miss Mann was quick to speak out against Hitlerism, in 1933 was forced to flee Germany after writing and producing a satirical anti-Nazi revue, The Pepper mill. Beginning in 1936, she frequently traveled in the U.S., where she scathingly attacked the Nazis in School for Barbarians, Escape to Life and The Lights Go Down...
Running away, in American folklore, has always been considered more romantic than reprehensible. Each year, an estimated 100,000 middleaged, muddle-income American men flee the seemingly unbearable pressures of their jobs and families to seek a different life far from home. But for many of them, the heady wine of freedom soon goes flat. What then? After a few weeks, according to the Tracers Company of America, a New York firm that specializes in finding missing people, these runaways begin to act quite predictably. By sending up naive signal flags, they consciously or subconsciously ask to be found...
...most of them also middle-class family men-who succeed in obliterating enough of their past to start fresh and evade detection. Instead, she says, they are like the people who attempt suicide but do not really want to die. Possessed by the feeling that they are trapped, they flee in an inchoate attempt to call attention to their problem. Running, at least for these men, "is a cry for help...