Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only one thing about Daniel Moynihan's remark: if the money that was spent on cathedrals in 20 centuries of Christianity (which came from the poor, directly or indirectly) had been used to help the poor, there may not have been three summers of rioting. Christianity's retreat from the humbleness that Jesus preached into self-glorifying magnificence has gone on long enough...
Skittering about the stage in mock retreat, Marian Seldes is awkward, angular, sexy-and touchingly vulnerable. She gives the finest feminine performance on Broadway. A graduate of Chicago's Second City Troupe, Troobnick brings to the play an improvisatory skill in portraying the contemporary personality who changes views, looks, and even voice in a matter of seconds...
...John's. "Three summers of rioting and out goes 50 years of zoning," he said. "Twenty centuries of Christianity and we conclude that in a time of moral crisis we will cease work on the most splendid place of worship ever conceived in the city. The retreat from magnificence has gone on long enough...
...Cambodia, where the Communists have set up several camps (TIME, Dec. 1 ) to which they retreat after bloody battles in the South, the situation has become pressing. U.S. military men have advised hot pursuit of the enemy into Cambodia, but the Johnson Administration has so far declined to go along. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu insisted last week that, if allied troops were hit by enemy fire from Cambodia, hot pursuit was not only justified but "indeed a military necessity." The U.S. has launched a new diplomatic initiative to convince Prince Norodom Sihanouk and other "interested" nations, including Russia...
...Minh, who made a rare public appearance two weeks ago on North Viet Nam's Resistance Day, or Lyndon Johnson, or both, was on the verge of widening the war. As long as, the Communists can move supplies more or less freely through Laos and Cambodia and retreat there to lick their wounds, the U.S. will find it difficult to drive them from the field completely. Nor will the "McNamara Wall" now being built along the DMZ be effective if the Communists can end-run around it in Laos. At some point, and last week's events indicate that...