Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of Kenya's February elections, the triumphant African leaders made clear that Kenyatta was not forgotten. They demanded his immediate release. British Governor Sir Patrick Renison refused. The Africans responded by refusing to take their seats in the new government. The governor began to retreat, moved Kenyatta from his desert detention village to a guarded home closer to Nairobi, permitted African politicians to visit him. Last week, the governor retreated again, allowed Kenyatta to meet the press for the first time since his trial eight years ago. In twelve planes they descended on the little village where Kenyatta...
...example, tells use that he has "nothing in particular against capitalists" but that unlike Ayn Rand he does not "find them an acceptable substitute for God, and would submit that Miss Rand's compulsion to apotheosize them indicates something about the soundness of her thought." Another column, "Retreat," when it is not offensively chatty, is absurdly serious enough to comment that the right-wing magazine New Guard's "analysis of history is shoddy and rather sophomoric." But all this is no integral part of Advance's second-issue soul, and is probably there only because the editors don't wish...
Manners prove as disconcerting as malice; the Rhodeses retreat from a few encounters bruised and mystified. Author Maxwell resolves some of these mysteries in an old-fashioned epilogue that chiefly confirms one of the implicit themes of the book: that every cultural contact is something of a cultural clash...
Nobody in Washington was inclined to view a negotiated settlement as much of a victory, for even a settlement along present battle lines could leave Laos partitioned. But the U.S. had decided to accept a diplomatic retreat, if necessary, rather than get involved in fighting. Said President Kennedy, with understatement: "Negotiations will not be simple and may take some time...
...anxiety was the apprehension involved in these separations. Alfred Adler, apostle of inferiority feelings, never formulated a full-blown theory of anxiety, but showed more insight than his Vienna rivals in seeing the uses that the neurotic makes of anxiety. If it blocks his activity, it permits him to retreat to a previous state of security, to evade decisions and responsibility?and. therefore, dangers. Also, as happens in many families, it can be forged into a weapon for dominating others, who would rather yield to unreasonable demands than be made to feel guilty...