Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, academic freedom has been strengthened. The Administrative Council of the City University retreated from a peremptory stand under the pressure of student demonstrations, faculty petitions, and newspaper protests. The retreat is likely to have intimidated city college administrators. They may not be more broad-minded than they were before the Council's about-face, but are certainly more wary. For the proponents of academic freedom that is a modest victory...
...Seasons is not a tragedy but a kind of militant retreat, with heavy losses, to a prepared position, the rock of More's religious faith. From the first, Bolt's hero shows that he is wise in the ways of the world, but not bound to the world's fawning favors. He urges a restless underling to become a fine teacher. "And if I was, who would know it?" asks the ambitious young man. Answers More quietly: "You, your pupils, your friends, God. Not a bad public, that..." In the end, More himself heartbreakingly loses not only...
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. These two related novellas about the prodigious Glass family tell beautifully the story of Franny Glass's retreat from the dancing egos of the academic world to the frightening calm of religious obsession...
Robert J. Kiely's editorial "Minds on Retreat" challenges Catholic students not "to hide their brains behind the skirts of Holy Mother Church. Faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to the moral law do not mean subjugation of the mind." Kiely's clear-headed argument is the only piece in Current that touches on the unique problems of Catholic students in a secular university. As such, it redeems much of the irrelevancy and triviality of the rest of the magazine...
...pathology at Yale, they lived in a series of rented houses in Bethany, Conn. The Buntings skied, hiked, played tennis, spent long nights banding chimney swifts in a New Haven heating plant. For $200 they managed to buy 50 acres on a Vermont mountaintop. built a tar-paper shack retreat for $26. In 1940 the first of their four children (a daughter, three sons) was born...