Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high, 10-ton design gives eloquent testimony to the career of the 77-year-old sculptor. Lipchitz spent three years on the project, laboring in his studio in central Italy. His efforts were interrupted by the Florentine floods of 1966, which devastated his retreat-as well as two-thirds of the design's original plaster. Undaunted, Lipchitz began anew. He was on hand to see his work unveiled. "Peace on Earth is my prayer for peace," he said. "If it will help us bring peace, then it is good sculpture; if it does not, it is bad sculpture...
...national dissidence sufficient to drive Lyndon Johnson from office. Still, the war does demonstrate that many scientists and scholars have not yet learned to handle their worldly roles. Some have been blinded by government research, which has transformed the nature of American universities. Yet few modern intellectuals can retreat to ivory-tower isolation. How, then, should intellectuals conduct themselves in what Physicist Max Born calls a "post-ethical" society...
When students challenge the university, many faculty members are apt to retreat from the challenge and give the students what they want, or they are apt to leave the university. The reason is that they want to get on with their research, and matters of administration and student trouble interfere with their work. A study by the Brookings Institution found that faculty members spend three to four times as much time on administrative work as they would desire ideally.y It is little wonder, then, that faculty members who grow tired of student unrest simply pick up and leave the university...
Their White House West will be Cotton Point, a spacious adobe villa in the resort town of San Clemente, 50 miles south of Los Angeles. The location appeared ideal for a presidential retreat. The weather is dry and sunny nearly year-round, offering a respite from muggy Key Biscayne summers. There is privacy; the house sits on 20 sequestered acres on a bluff between the ocean and the coastal highway. There is even the convenience of nearby Camp Pendleton, with a handy helicopter pad for presidential commuting...
...without due consideration of France, they were met with De Gaulle's fierce obduracy. At war's end De Gaulle headed the provisional government. But within two years, because of party squabbles, he resigned his post and, hurt but still in love, retired to his rural retreat in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises...