Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starred in more than 70 films; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A trouper since the age of five when she played in The Sixth Commandment, she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in films during the late 1930s. Her roles ran the Hollywood gamut (Casanova Brown; Retreat, Hell!), but she confessed a preference for period and costume pictures (Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Marie Antoinette in Madame Du Barry...
Craigville Beach is cold and deserted in April except for a progression of Christian fellowship groups which each weekend troop through the Craigville Inn. One weekend the Harvard-Radeliffe group went on a retreat there, along with about 30 Wellesley girls...
...probably more aware of this retreat from reality than any other American poet, and he has struggled to oppose it, to climb back over the wall out of the garden. Recognizing that our language and the tradition which survives it is no longer an exclusive proposition. Bly has turned to foreign poets, translating their work, providing essays on their lives, and revealing their enormous influence on his own poems. Georg Trakl, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda: these are names whose meaning calls out to us in a low voice, intruding on our conscious life: their experience is entirely other than...
Hitler's birthplace, a two-story stucco house at Vorstadt 219 in the Austrian border town of Braunau am Inn, is no longer marked as a shrine; only informed visitors can pick it out. His Alpine retreat at Obersalzberg, which survived the war, was dynamited by the Bavarian government. The remains of the dynamited Führerbunker, a concrete redoubt and command post beneath the Reich Chancellery, are now a grassy mound, situated fittingly enough in the narrow, 110-yd. corridor of no man's land between East and West Berlin. Countless Adolf Hitler squares or streets...
Love Feast. Despite Kirk's retreat, he had profited from the bizarre affair. For one thing, he won for his cause a powerful friend in court: the Justice Department. The Nixon Administration sought desperately to defuse the situation and avoid confronting the maverick Republican Governor with troops. Before Kirk caved in, Attorney General John Mitchell, in what one Kirk aide called a "love feast," talked by phone with the Governor at least a dozen times. Kirk had the Administration boxed in: almost any federal show of force would have hurt Nixon in the South...