Word: retreating
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Your Nov. 14 review of Retreat from Learning struck a responsive chord in a teacher of many years' experience. Teachers are a dedicated group. The older generation of teachers were so completely cowed by bureaucracy and politics that freedom of speech was just a pat phrase. Conditions have changed only to grant that freedom to pupils. The public asks so frequently, "Why don't teachers do something about all this delinquency?" They should read how Author Joan Dunn shows up the limitations of teachers' authority...
Last week, skillfully urged by India's V. K. Krishna Menon, the Arab-Asian bloc beat a delicate retreat. Without a dissenting voice, the General Assembly agreed to drop the Algerian case from the agenda. In Paris, France's Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay hailed "a victory for reason," achieved without any pressure by the French themselves, and ordered his delegates to return posthaste to their seats...
Last July the National Peoples Congress voted, in the militant language Communists use even in retreat, for "a resolute shrinkage" in the program...
...Premier Einar Gerhardsen, on a twelve-day good-will junket to Russia, signed a communique with Soviet Premier Bulganin promising not to "open bases for foreign forces on Norwegian territory as long as Norway is not attacked or threatened with attack." The communiqué had the sound of a retreat from Norway's fidelity to NATO, and Communist newspapers in Europe so played it. Actually, Gerhardsen was merely repeating a pledge made to the Soviet Union in 1949, just before Norway joined NATO. Norway has five NATO-built air bases, and is getting seven more. Allied airmen can drop...
...even finished his pudding when his date took his arm and suggested they leave. He ignored her scowl when he strode past the door which a girl was holding open for her friend. After bidding a farewell, he bid a hasty retreat to Hayes-Bick...