Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor of Philosophy at New York University since 1939, Hook now finds himself at the Harvard Summer School-mainly to be close to a favorite summer retreat in Vermont. since graduating from CCNY in 1923 and teaching afterwards in New York public schools, Hook has not strayed for long from the big city...
...Denver Post survey disclosed that seven out of ten Coloradans favor war over retreat. Of 32 Atlantans questioned, only one admitted willingness to give up Berlin rather than fight. "Sure it's a dangerous world and nobody wants war," said a North Hollywood businesswoman. "But if we kick in our chips over Berlin, we might as well kick in the whole pot. The effort has to be made somewhere, risk or no risk, and it might as well be over Berlin." To show weakness in Berlin, said Miami Hotel Executive Carl H. Ransom Jr., is only "to give...
...artful compromise was unlikely to win many friends at home. Both the U.S. textile industry and its friends in Congress loudly proclaimed "shock" that no stronger action was to be taken against imported textiles. To free traders, increased U.S. reliance on quotas-imposed or voluntary -seemed a dangerous retreat from the international economic aims professed by every U.S. Administration, Republican or Democratic, since 1932. Admitted Under Secretary Ball: "These arrangements represent a severe departure from the ideal of unrestricted trade toward which we would like to be working...
...citizenship in California. Editor of the campus magazine, Renata skis, swims, sails, speaks French. Polish, British-accented English, "and a little Swahili that I picked up on an African safari last year" (courtesy of a classmate's wealthy oilman father). Renata's hopes are for the retreat of Communism ("It goes against human nature") and a future teaching job in a U.S. college. She glows at the prospect of marriage: "Maybe I'll meet a man with a pronounceable name...
...bouquet of sweet peas, admired the babies, and observed that her daughter Caroline detested flashbulbs. The president of the Paris Municipal Council presented her with a tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace of Versailles, with illuminated fountains and gardens, an 18th century ballet...