Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholicism that such men fashioned could no longer be contained in strict cloisters. Gradually, the Maryland campus became more relaxed. Then, in 1969, Woodstock abandoned its country retreat altogether to move to New York City's clangorous, ecumenical Upper West Side, where its students could live cheek by jowl with rabbinical candidates and Union Theological Seminary's liberal Protestants. They would also be able to minister to the whole polyglot, polycaste world of the Secular City, and that they did-tutoring in Harlem, working in the U.N., in drug clinics, in mental health, with the aged. Last week...
Some aspects of Tito's double-time retreat from liberalism have been reasonably popular, at least outside intellectual circles. In a country where the average annual wage is $1,000 and no one is supposed to earn more than $7,000, Tito's campaign against the "economic criminals" who in recent years have salted millions away in Swiss and West German banks has a certain appeal. The long-term danger is that when Tito leaves the scene, the levers of power will be in the hands of the new class of rigid party stalwarts and ideological dogmatists that...
...strains to outdo the exotica of everyday reality, and in the straining finds himself an alien in the modern world. He doesn't know quite what to make of industrial advance, youth culture, and political ferment. He stares at those phenomena with confusion and regret and would willingly retreat to the more secure confusion of more hallucination...
Says Pollack, "I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth but I don't want to believe it is..." Like Redford, who built his own resort and personal retreat in the same Wasatch range where Jeremiah Johnson was filmed. Pollack has a vacation "cabin" with running water, heat, and a dishwater...
Life on Taiwan is at least, not bad. The people are hard-working, and characteristically honest. There is mutually no violent crime. And for few dollars it is possible to escape the city and seek a cool mountain retreat...