Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week, President Eisenhower motored down to Washington from his Gettysburg retreat for his monthly physical checkup. Since the third week of convalescence from his heart attack, the President's doctors had reported nothing but cheerful news and steady progress, and Ike, in an ebullient mood, had every reason to expect another green light. Instead, after a two-hour examination at Walter Reed Army Hospital, the doctors flashed a caution signal. The President, they said, was showing signs of fatigue. His heart may be slightly enlarged. The period of convalescence would be extended, and for the next...
...Harvard life? Pressure, impersonality, bureaucracy, mass-production and big business methods, all will eventually expand, with obvious effects on intellectual life and the development of the individual student. The bigger we get, beyond a certain size, the more we lose the sense of the whole, the more we retreat into our specialties, our departmentalizes, our little personal refuges, the harder it is to maintain any sense of unity, of follow ship, of community, the more difficult it will be for the single human being in his full individuality, the Harvard man, old-style, to count. We turn things over...
...very much engrossed by Mr. David L. Halberstam's article in the December edition of the CRIMSON. His main thesis, it appears to me, is that the actions of the NAACP and Life magazine have caused the South to retreat to its old position of distrust of the North and to white supremacy." This retreat is due, says Mr. Halberstam, to emotionalism on the part of the NAACP...
...significant retreat from alleged tendencies on the part of philanthropic foundations to control educational policy...
...Baldwin sees it, is that he is caught between a West European legacy of white supremacy and the democratic ideal of equality and brotherhood. Unfortunately, the love of justice rarely bridges the absence of love. For his part, the Negro "hates and fears" the white man, but he cannot retreat to his African heritage, which was severed at the auction block; he can only find his identity within "the cage of reality" of the American scene...