Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faintly puritanical note that was proof that not everything had been infected by decadence. American journalism has always been inspired more by the Mafia than by the Gray Ladies. Moreover, it has a recurring weakness for the kind of tunnel vision that imagines a glimpse into Plato's Retreat reveals the daydreams of the inhabitants of Texarkana. So it is useful to remember the warp of many impressions of the '70s that have gained currency. Some result from the tendency to mistake the new and exotic for the prevalent and enduring...
...real world faded into the background after that. Jimmy Carter managed to penetrate once in a while, with some new advance or retreat from the principles of Camp David that he and Time magazine had so carefully formulated; largely, however, the concerns of the campus became internal ones. Salmonella ravaged, or at least attempted to ravage, a good number of Houses, and conversation turned to acronyms: CRR, ACSR, HRDC. Life seemed simple...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club invited former President Richard M. Nixon to speak here next spring. Nixon, of course, has not made an appearance at an American college since his resignation under heavy fire in 1974. Since then he has mostly stayed within the confires of his San Clemente retreat, but in recent months he has shown signs of a re-emergence into public, if not political, life that is most distressing. Starting with his appearance in Hydin, Ky. this summer and extending to his current European tour, Nixon has demonstrated his pathetic need to be in the spotlight again...
...twice went down to the wire at 4-4 before coming back to win. Rivitz mixed simple beat attacks and parries with high feints, then looping disengages for low touches. She lost only eight points in her four bouts, several of those coming when she rather lazily failed to retreat after her lunges came up short...
...interest rates, which lead to higher prices for a while. In time, however, the stringent money policy will force inflation down and push the dollar up. What scares Whitman is that the turn to a more stable world monetary system may not come soon enough. People may panic and retreat behind walls of protectionism. Says Whitman: "There is an increasing sense that the postwar dream has failed, and that the only hope is to form regional trade blocs, with every bloc for itself." Europe's Common Market is one of the great imaginative ideas of the 20th century...