Word: retreatant
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...might call his retreat to Harvard a dip into the academic contingent, then—a checkup on a population that has traditionally been less than supportive of his “common sense approach” to politics...
Last July, Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and Senior Advisor to the President Dennis F. Thompson presented an outline of this plan at a retreat attended by top administrators and deans, including University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Reagan's luck was to find a nation in trouble - in post-Vietnam retreat and disorientation. His political genius was to restore its spirit. And his legacy was winning the longest war in American history, the long twilight struggle of the cold...
...fact is, America's sense of itself has taken a stunning blow. We are still recovering from the last week of April, when the Abu Ghraib photos were revealed and the U.S. military chose not to fight the Islamic radicals in Fallujah (a retreat compounded by last week's decision not to pursue Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army). Taken together, those events represent a coherent pattern of behavior--that of a schoolyard bully, who tortures the weak and runs away from the strong. This is, sadly, the way Abu Ghraib and Fallujah are perceived by our enemies...
...about the state of the Broadway theater. Most of the angst this spring has been directed at the dearth of straight plays, at least those with enough beef to legitimately compete for a Best Play award. Two of the four nominees this year (Anna in the Tropics and The Retreat From Moscow) closed months ago. And the favorite to win is I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright?s rather trumped-up monologue about an East German transvestite who recounts her life under both Nazism and Communism, which seems mainly the excuse for a bravura performance by Jefferson Mays...