Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trying to profile so visible a public figure at first gave Henry pause. But Atlanta Bureau Correspondent B.J. Phillips' reporting soon put his anxiety to rest. Phillips spent time with Turner in a variety of settings, including two days with his family on his plantation retreat south of Charleston, S.C. Says Henry: "She got Turner to tell stories about himself I never saw in print...
...mind that made a summer of music, lectures and dramatic readings seem exciting, an attitude that the modern Chautauqua tries with fair success to preserve. In the early decades of this century, a variety of "Chautauqua" lecture circuits sprang up, borrowing the name and fame of the original retreat. These vanished with the Depression, but Chautauqua had a grandmother's-house permanence. Richard Reddington, 40, who now directs the institution's courses in such subjects as painting, dance and Chinese literature, married into a clan of Chautauqua summer residents and found, like other newcomers, that "it was simply...
...marks on the desert. One has no difficulty imagining the screams of dying men, for there are still bodies all around, partially covered now by the drifting sand. Most of the dead are Iranian soldiers, caught in a trap from which they could not escape. The Iraqis pretended to retreat, drawing the Iranian forces into what an Iraqi colonel describes as a "killing zone." He explains: "God was on our side. Just then, a fierce sandstorm arose and blinded the enemy. His tanks crashed into one another. We were already in position, our backs to the wind...
...Reagan stressed to a television interviewer in St. Louis that Mitterrand had inherited the contract from his predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Said Reagan: "Our allies pointed out to us that they had already gone forward to the point that they did not feel they could retreat." Washington could try to impose penalties, including fines and blacklisting in the U.S., if Alsthom-Atlantique and Nuovo Pignone go ahead with their plans. But in the end, most experts agree, there is little the U.S. will be able to do to stop the French and Italians from selling...
...Piano Concerto this summer not only could encounter these works at Ravinia, where Beethoven runs rampant, but could scarcely avoid them elsewhere: in upstate New York at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, played by the Philadelphia Orchestra (during its Beethoven festival); at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony's Berkshire retreat (during an all-Beethoven orchestral weekend); and at the Hollywood Bowl (during the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Beethoven festival). Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles are each playing Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and Stravinsky's The Firebird this summer. Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto...