Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warned that Kennedy's proposed abandonment of the two Chinese offshore islands would be "the road to war, the road to surrender. We must not give up an inch of territory." At Knott's Berry Farm, near Long Beach, Calif., he added: "We left the policy of retreat and defeat behind us in 1953, and we're not going back to it in 1960." Kennedy delivered a full-dress speech to a Democratic dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Said he: "I will not risk American lives and a nuclear war by permitting any other nation...
...suggestion that illusions could be broken more gently is not simple humanitarianism. The shock of newness does not always a bring reactions best suited to overcoming barriers, and often it results in retreat from competition...
Shirer makes the famous case that Hit ler's own mistakes hurt him more in the war's later stages than did his enemies in the field. His attack on Russia, his failure to follow through in North Africa, his preference of annihilation to retreat, and finally his own retreat into a world of pure fantasy brought on his doom. When the end came, he had no wish to spare Germany. After all. "those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed...
...self-destruction must be carefully prepared for; the audience must be made to understand, to feel, the process of decay at work. Michael Murray's production at the Charles Playhouse seemed not so much misdirected as undirected, and at the end of the play, when Blanche makes her final retreat out of the real world into the grotesquely refined world of her imagination, the spectator has no sense of the inexorability of her breakdown, no feeling that this is the way it had to be, for Blanche and for the civilization she represents...
...Questioned . . ." In 1956 Templeton overturned his life: he left both the ministry and his wife. "I questioned my own certitude about Christianity," he explained. When he came out of retreat, he had confirmed his decision to leave the ministry and went into television. Among Templeton's fans was Star Editor-in-Chief Beland Honderich, who hired him to edit the Star's news-background page...