Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day to demand that the department be reinstated. Nonetheless, some of them seemed to be having second thoughts. "We think perhaps we made a mistake by demanding veto power too soon," said Booker McClain, a member of the B.S.U. central committee. "We have decided to make a retreat for the time being." Preparing for the worst all the same, Hinderaker rescinded Riverside's policy of permitting students to demonstrate inside campus buildings...
...virtual hermit at his Mougins retreat in southern France, Pablo Picasso was forced to emerge by a toothache. On the streets of Cannes he looked in turn pained and relieved, allowing the public one of its few glimpses of the master in almost a year...
...than in the book's final poem, "Prologue at Sixty." Now beginning to listen to thoughts of his own death "like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," the poet remains stubbornly tentative to the end. Part prayer, part history lesson, "Sixty" links Auden in his Austrian retreat to the Northern barbarian races-with whom Auden has always been conscious of kinship-and the long sweep of European history. "Turks have been here, Boney's legions,/ Germans, Russians, and no joy they brought." The medium through which such awareness flows is the aging poet full of misgivings...
...unwittingly done, although we have indeed assumed responsibility over there that we cannot honorably evade. We cannot honorably evade our responsibility by trying to make the Saigon government do what we with them could not. Nor can we use that unpopular government of ex-French officers to cover our retreat and prolong the agony of their people. Nor can we honorably leave those military leaders and their civil servants exposed to reprisals...