Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...having to retreat from his promise of a balanced budget by 1984, finding the recession worse than his economists had anticipated, and being unable to silence his quarreling foreign policy makers, offhandedness was not enough. Among columnists, critics were getting sharper and sympathizers uneasy, often a portent of troubles to come. Anthony Lewis called the conduct of foreign policy "a national joke"; William Safire regretfully accused Reagan of losing touch with reality. Like many survivors of Nixon's Washington, Safire was concerned about a tendency, new to Reagan but not to Presidents in general, to blame the press when...
...hand that private universities deserve extensive funding because they contribute to the public interest; and on the other that government has proved too excessive in its regulatory requirements. In "The Apocalyptic Style," he urges Yale freshmen to pursue a liberal education for its own sake, warning against a "retreat into self-interest"--a not-so-thinly veiled reference to growing pre-professionalism. He says in the book's first essay. "The Private University and the Public Interest," that "the purpose of education, as opposed to information, is to lead us to some sense of citizenship, to some shared assumptions about...
...staying away from work for less than a week). To specialists like Robert H. Waldman, chairman of the department of medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, the cold as psychological event seems almost as clear. Waldman points out that the cold allows the typical adult to retreat from everyday pressures, adding: "If we did away with it-if we cured the common cold-we might well have to face an increase in hypertension, depression and related problems." Nobody who has either received or poured forth the human sympathy that a good cold provokes can fail...
...Boston Symphony is regularly included in the list of "Big Five" U.S. orchestras. It provides employment for 102 musicians year round-including, since 1938, summers at Tanglewood, its magical retreat in the Berkshires-extensive touring, recording contracts, television appearances both as the B.S.O. and its lighter alter ego, the Pops. The orchestra has also largely escaped the labor problems that have afflicted other major symphonic ensembles and presents the image of a happy family. Says Bassoonist Sherman Walt: "It's a treat to play here." In a town saddled with the perennially flawed Red Sox, the B.S.O...
...once literally crippled herself for love, she has earned the right, which she does not exercise, to comment either bitterly or smugly about the dangers Bernard and Mathilde court by courting. Indeed, the script provides an opportunity for her to mirror their situation, which she avoids by tactful, exemplary retreat. Like her creator, she is content with compassion and the wisdom that accrues to those who observe life clearly and without resort to dubious generalizations. Bless them both...