Word: rearguard
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...said famously that most of the major Italian pictures in America entered with his stamp on their passports.In the 1930s, despite having converted to Roman Catholicism, Berenson faced insecurity, first under Fascist authorities and later under the Nazis. “We are at the heart of the German rearguard action, and seriously exposed,” Berenson wrote in his diary in the summer of 1944. Berenson remained at I Tatti, though, and miraculously, the villa went untouched, as did most of his collections which had been relocated to a villa at Careggi. When Berenson died...
...Cushing, Me. (pop. 130), stands high and apart from the mainstream of American art. Manhattan-centered abstract expressionism has in the past two decades given a multitude of new answers to the central questions: What is painting? What is art? What is form? Wyeth is no heroic rearguard defender against that trend. But, in a tradition going back to Rembrandt and to the roots of art, he insists on exploring something else: the condition of nature and the depth of the human spirit...
...Well, mostly. There has been a rearguard action among conservatives - "market skeptics," is how one U.S. source describes them - to throw sand in the reform gears as the global carnage mounts. That, in part, explains Paulson's speech in New York. The conservatives have made some headway. Fan Gang, a liberal economist and adviser to the Ministry of Finance, says that any move towards derivatives trading on the Chinese exchanges is, at least for now, "probably on hold...
...Crusader A few years after his return, McCain was posted to Washington as a Navy liaison on Capitol Hill, a political job his Beltway-connected father had performed with flair. Still a rebel by nature, McCain used his connections to lead a rearguard effort to save a $2 billion aircraft carrier from President Jimmy Carter's budget ax, even though McCain was supposed to be representing Carter on the Hill. By 1980, he wanted to stop advising members of Congress and start becoming...
...Monday all was quiet, but rearguard actions are being fought. Legislators belonging to the opposition Kuomintang (KMT)-the party Chiang headed for 50 years on both sides of the Taiwan Strait until his death in 1975 at the age of 87-have called the hall's name change illegal, auguring a protracted courtroom battle. Taipei's Mayor Hau Lung-bin, also of the KMT, has vowed to fight any moves to dismantle a giant statue of Chiang that stands at the building, declaring it a protected historical site. He is part of a core of KMT politicians-and a surviving...