Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works heard Sunday, however, would seem to represent a retreat for Rzewski into purely personal and aesthetic realms, though not a mellowing of his characteristically passionate musical language. None of the three pieces on the program had a discernable social purpose in tow, but Rzewski did make a point of eschewing the traditional tuxedo in favor of a casual shirt and pants...
...speed at which Clinton is getting down to business. And Clinton's start-up problems will be all but forgotten if he presents a credible economic plan in his State of the Union speech on Feb. 17. Last Saturday Clinton traveled to Camp David for a two-day retreat with staff and Cabinet officials. If a team benefits from adversity, then the new President and his colleagues have a wealth of experience from which to learn and recover...
...trifled with. Saddam, fully relishing the irony that his own reign would outlast that of his chief nemesis, could not resist tweaking Bush. This time Bush had no patience for the game and ordered a bombing raid that -- at least briefly -- forced Saddam to retreat...
EVERY ONE OF US KNOWS THE SENSATION OF GOING UP, on retreat, to a high place and feeling ourselves so lifted up that we can hardly imagine the circumstances of our usual lives, or all the things that make us fret. In such a place, in such a state, we start to recite the standard litany: that silence is sunshine, where company is clouds; that silence is rapture, where company is doubt; that silence is golden, where company is brass...
...foreign policy cannot be treated as an unwelcome distraction, that the U.S. must play a leadership role in making the world a safer place; no other country can. "The new world could, in time, be as menacing as the old," Bush told a Texas audience in mid-December. "A retreat from American leadership, from American involvement, would be a mistake for which future generations, indeed our own children, would pay dearly...