Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is to be done, as another man asked in a not too different time at the beginning of this century. The failure of nerve among many elements in American society is already evident enough: a retreat into privatism or worse, a surrender to nihilism, the politics, if you will, of Peter Pan, of boys who will not grow up. And it is not good enough. The end of youth is not the end of life, much less the end of the world. It is, or ought to mark the onset of a period of less fun, no doubt...
Coalition of Retreat. Nonetheless, the latest Gallup poll showed that 46% of Americans now believe by hindsight that "it was a mistake to have become involved in Viet Nam"-compared with 24% two years ago. Perhaps more significant was Gallup's reckoning that 57% of Americans believe that the U.S. should not involve itself in another situation "like Viet...
...Capitol Hill, where an influential coterie of Senators led by Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen and Majority Whip Russell Long are pressing for the tightest protection of U.S. goods since the bad old days of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff.* If the protectionist Senators-dubbed "the coalition of retreat" by Hubert Humphrey-were to succeed, they would impose strict quotas on more than 75% of dutiable U.S. imports...
Ironically, the film's most stirring moments are not its overheated love scenes but the brief encounters between Burton and Guinness. In one, Guinness, a short day's journey from death, recounts his wasted life of lies in a graveyard retreat. Priestlike, Burton answers the tortured confession with a symbolic absolution. At such moments of transcendent drama-and there are enough to make it worthwhile-The Comedians is easily forgiven its other sins...
...billion worth, or 50%, of total U.S. imports. Liberalized-trade advocates compared the Orderly Trade Act proposal to the restrictive Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in a rebuttal that skillfully invoked diplomacy and the dollar sign, pleaded with the Senate not to "retreat into protectionism...