Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a single, eloquent evocation of the common sense and grandeur that should be France, Charles de Gaulle last week changed the mood of his nation. Until he delivered his ringing "no retreat" speech (see below), France had been drifting seemingly unchecked toward civil war in Algeria. After he spoke, there was hope-and growing assurance-that the situation could be saved...
...combination has a charm and grace of its own. In a ballad, she maintains the clean, classic phrasing of a church singer, she can be roguish in a West Indian ditty about a naughty flea, and she can make a chilling lament of A Warrior's Retreat Song-"Jikele maweni ndiyahamba/Jikele maweni indiyahamba," which she says suggests, "We've had it, we can't make it." Memory brings back the "Back of the Moon," a black saloon in Johannesburg, and life bounces suddenly to a bongo rhythm...
...Charles de Gaulle's favorite maxims is that "power does not retreat" -by which he means that his government does not hesitate to take tough decisions. But last week, enmeshed in a showdown struggle with Antoine Pinay, the economic miracle worker of France's Fifth Republic, De Gaulle hesitated before the eyes of the whole world. Twice Pinay was summoned into conference with Premier Michel Debré, twice into discussions with President de Gaulle himself. At last, after a flurry of ambiguous communiques, came the laconic announcement that despite De Gaulle's "appreciation" of Pinay...
...overwhelmed by the onrush and outrage of machine noise on the earth and, oh God, everywhere in the air," explained Morris Graves, and two years ago fled his Seattle home for a quiet place. His new retreat: a manor house in the green Irish hills near Dublin. There he could hear once again the little sounds of nature that are "essential nourishment" for him at 49. But the racket of the U.S. inspired some of the best pictures Graves has made in years...
...deplored what he referred to as two decades of potboiling. (Among other works he had churned out six popular detective novels to help foot the port-and-banana bills.) A glowing young convert, Lady Acton, and her husband gave Knox a psychological lift by offering him a writing retreat and private-chaplain status at their country estate, Aldenham. With this haven in view, Knox secured the English hierarchy's commission to translate the New Testament. From the beginning Knox assumed that he was to redo the entire Bible. This led to misunderstandings with the hierarchy, further aggravated by traditionalist...