Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis originally appeared to many Japanese as an "economic Guadalcanal"-the point at which heady advance turned into steady retreat. Predictions abounded that the world's second richest economy, which depends on the Middle East for 84% of its oil, would fall into a 1974 recession or even depression. Nothing of the sort has happened. Despite an initial panic and rising inflation, oil imports dropped only slightly, and now that Japan is on the Arabs' list of "friends," the government unofficially predicts that 1974 imports will actually rise 4% or so over 1973. The doomsday atmosphere has changed...
...concentrate on literary influence rather than discussion of character. The essays by Frank Kermode bear all the marks of a penetrating intelligence hamstrung by external restrictions. This sense of containment is clearest in Lear, where Kermode seems to feel required to beg the whole question of literary interpretation and retreat to the view that since Shakespeare's audience was Christian, we can safely assume the play does not mean what it says. Kermode was not so cautious when he edited his brilliant Signet edition of The Winter's Tale. Perhaps now that he's installed in a plush Cambridge professorship...
...could move, the Spanish hierarchy rallied behind Añoveros. In Bilbao, priests, nuns and lay people by the thousands signed petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten retreat to oversee discussions on the Spanish crisis. Long-distance conference calls hummed between Rome and Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio, the papal nuncio in Madrid, as Vatican diplomats sought ways to avoid an open rupture with Franco without compromising "the demands of justice...
...money to revive a wartime romance with the rich, spoiled Daisy, who has since married even richer. Their crossed purposes are refracted in the lives of those near them: Daisy's philandering husband Tom, his mistress and her husband. At the end Tom and Daisy retreat into their "vast carelessness"; the others are all dead. The story is secondary to the novel's brilliant crystallization of the pace and mood of the '20s and to what Fitzgerald himself called "blankets of beautiful prose." Deprived of that prose, a writer is in the position of "the poor devil...
There is, of course, a difference between the lucid gray washes and quick flecks of ink with which the painter Chii-jan, at the end of the 10th century, painted a Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountain, and the clumsy spatterings that often declare "spontaneity" in the West. It is partly a difference of insight -Chii-jan's mountain, breathed into serenely vertical form, layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being...