Word: retreatant
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...decades later, her daughters discovered among the papers she left behind the manuscript of an extraordinary unfinished novel: Suite Francaise. The book consists of two parts (Nemirovsky planned three more), the first following a handful of French families of different social classes through the crashing chaos of the retreat from Paris, the second set in the hushed, simmering hell of a small town under German occupation. It's a work of Proustian scope and delicacy, by turns funny and deeply moving, that captures a civilization in its most revealing moment: that of its undoing...
...left largely unscathed. The cave's custodians are still struggling to eradicate this scourge, a nasty fungus called Fusarium solani. Access is strictly limited; TIME was allowed to visit the cave because its keepers feel they finally have the outbreak under control. But to keep the fungus in retreat, a team of restorers enters the cave every two weeks--dressed, as everyone who enters now must be, in hooded biohazard suits, booties and face masks--to remove filaments from the walls. "They tell us the cave's condition is stable," says a member of the Scientific Committee of Lascaux Cave...
...White House responded nimbly, putting the President on television immediately and releasing an unusually detailed account of how he learned the news. Now, Bush's team hopes to capitalize by playing up a previously scheduled retreat on Iraq at Camp David, to be held early next week. U.S. officials and their counterparts in the new Iraqi government will be joined electronically to discuss how the White House can help, and how much responsibility it can cede back to the home team...
Even with Incoming Interim Faculty Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, highly respected by FAS professors for his work as dean under former University President Neil L. Rudenstine, the Council does not plan to retreat to its former passivity, Kleinman says...
...however, Summers was confident that he could endure the scheduled afternoon meeting of FAS, his first public conversation with professors since Kirby’s abrupt resignation, according a professor who spoke with him before the meeting. He spent the first half of the day at a semiannual retreat with the University’s deans—including Kirby—held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Irving Street, several blocks northeast of the Yard...