Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position of the AFL-CIO President on issues of Civil Rights, automation and the political role of labor has been one of retreat. Realizing that a passive labor movement is a respectable one, he has done all he can for the respectability of American unions. He is running for re-election next month, and nothing could strengthen organized labor more than his defeat...
...fighter squadron with which Aten flew. His book catches the enthusiasm which swept across the anti-Communist armies and which made the toast "Christmas in Moscow" a Cossack watchword. And finally, the dream shattered and the Communist counter-offensive moving forward irrevocably, Aten's narrative makes up the ghastly retreat to the Black Sea and the eventual evacuation of Allied forces from under the guns of the Bolshevik advance guard...
...Russian nurse. By what, from the story teller's point of view, was an extremely for fortunate coincidence, Aten met the girl and had opportunities to spend any amount of time with her while the Cossacks were at the height of their successes; later, during the nightmarish retreat, the two lovers meet with their own special tragedy. The parallel between the personal and over-all themes would be entirely plausible, if left to the reader to discover, for it is natural enough that in the chaotic sickness of a starving people's retreat would be many individual calamities. But Aten...
...midway through the book, as the war ceases to be a game, there is a change in Aten's tone. The retreat becomes a vastly sobering experience: "the refugee trains inched and shuttled and rocketed by. We sat warm and cozy and full of hot buttered rum--and ashamed." Aten's war does not sound like cowboys and Indians any more. The second part of the book is infinitely better than the first--had each section been written immediately after the events it describes transpired, the change in style would add to an impression that Aten aged a great deal...
Beer laid the retreat of the left to the irrationalism of the Cold...