Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political settlement, and then asked for a two-hour break. Kissinger spent the time walking through the surrounding oak and beech forests, pondering what would come next. The setting had the kind of historical cachet that delights Kissinger. It was at Rambouillet, with its 14th century chateau, once a retreat of Mary Queen of Scots, Catherine de Medicis and Henry IV, where Ernest Hemingway set up his headquarters with advance units of the American Army about to retake Paris in 1944. Now Kissinger and Le Due Tho would be added to the guidebooks...
...MASSIVE indifference of listeners to contemporary compositions is legion. For the past century of more, the taste of the musical public has become increasingly conservative as contemporary compositions retreat further from the comfortable domain of traditional harmonies. Donald Martino's professional life is at the center of this problem: he is the head of the New England Conservatory's composition department, a man who oversees the training of composers...
...Hanoi has agreed to negotiate directly with the Thieu government while the South Vietnamese President is still in power, which it had said that it would never do. In fact, the Communists even seem willing to let Thieu remain in office until the caretaker government is formed, again a retreat. And they have agreed to forgo a strictly tripartite government with precisely one-third representation guaranteed them...
Suddenly it has become respectable -in fact desirable-to display an ethnic background. It offers an escape from current insecurity and uncertainty, a return to something fixed and firm. It is also part of the contemporary retreat from the notion of the American melting pot. The phenomenon poses-as it does in the case of blacks, Chicanos and Jews-the question of whether the proliferation of a lot of selfabsorbed, self-contained communities is any improvement over the concept of a common citizenry. Along with the release of pride and energy, the ethnic movement has given rise to a certain...
...ABCD is trying to enforce some of the efficiency measures started by Bennet-Alder but is imposing them gradually. It has also hired a black as acting administrator and persuaded the remaining staffers to stay for a while. The agency, says ABCD Director Bob Coard, "is not about to retreat from involvement in Columbia Point because of a few faceless saboteurs." Coard may succeed, but for doctors like Fleishman, the retreat is final. "I got battle fatigue," says the physician, "after 6½ years of hassles with everyone...