Word: retreater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Tisdale's volumes completely fill an entire room on the top floor of Widener. "It used to be the 'quiet room' of Archibald MacLeish," she explained, but the Curator of the Nieman Collection would have difficulty in recognizing his former retreat today...
...Ashram (retreat) in Lucknow, India is the spiritual home, and sometimes the physical home, of the world's greatest Christian missionary-Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, Methodist, author of The Christ of the Indian Road, evangelist to high-caste Hindus, who call him Rishi (a saint). From his Ashram last summer Dr. Jones wrote his friends about the Kingdom of God, declaring: "Never have I been so convinced that this is the one hope of the human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left...
...ours." The answer to this is simply that what does happen in this world seriously affects all of us.... What the Germans do affects our lives regardless of our will, with ever increasing immediacy. My contention is that isolationism is an avoidance of the issue and a retreat from correlated facts...
Where this plane landed was kept a secret, but from his hideout the Generalissimo sent a manifesto which the New York Times headlined: CHIANG SEES GAINS IN EVERY RETREAT. To Occidentals, who think in days, months and years this was pure irony; but Chinese think in decades, centuries, millenniums...
...theorist responsible for this Duke retreat is the Law School dean, tanned, pipe-smoking Hugo Claude Horack, a hunter and fisherman. Dean Horack used to be investigator of legal education for the American Bar Association, and he concluded that the best place for barristers to learn law and social responsibility is in a quiet, simple atmosphere. Last summer he had five log cabins built as an experiment. One is a recreation centre. Eight students live and study in each of the others. But students are spared Abraham Lincoln's handicaps. They study not by firelight but by electric light...