Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battles were raging throughout the hills as unit after U.S. unit moved in and made contact through the week. At nightfall the infantrymen would pull back, and air and artillery would go to work. B-52s several times came in to pound enemy positions, particularly along the lines of retreat to the Laotian border, where 150,000 Ibs. of explosives were dropped in a single raid. At week's end the fighting was still flaring in spots around Dak To, having already cost the Communists some 500 dead. This time the price was also heavy for some U.S. units...
...Bird says but who he is when he says it. To polish his metallic-voiced, dandruff-flecked,chipmunk-cheeked impersonation of Harold Wilson, he spends hours studying the Prime Minister's "Brechtian performances" on TV, which he likens to "a political guerrilla fight: always backing off, always in retreat, but always seeming to attack...
...this leads to the point that the issues must be seen on their intrinsic merits. This surely will not mean a total retreat from the world, that enchanting idyll of no known past. But here and there disengagements from some present undertakings should not a priori be foreclosed. On the other hand, reconsiderations may issue in more strenuous efforts at openness, particularly in the policy sciences and their research centers. Conscious receptivity to destructive criticism of conventionally accepted limits n policy can after all well be defended on both intellectual and pragmatic grounds...
...left at that will very likely fail. With no very great evidence, to be sure, but with much conviction I will argue that the American policy--the experience as well as the sense of community and shared conviction--has been impaired, has atrophied in our time because of the retreat from architecture and public buildings as a conscious element of public policy and a purposeful instrument for the expression of public purposes...
...save our cities, and restore to American public life the sense of shared experience, trust, and common purpose that seem to be draining out of it, the quality of public design has got to be made a public issue because it is a politcal fact. The retreat from magnificence, to use a phrase of Evelyn Waugh's, has gone on long enough: too long. An era of great public works is as much needed in America as any other single element in our public life. Magnificence does not mean monumental. That seems to be a point to be stressed...