Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintains four houses in Paris and its environs, but the doorbells don't function and the telephone numbers are changed frequently, even though they are unlisted. His favorite retreat when writing is a small chalet in the Swiss Alps, where he keeps a pair of high-powered binoculars with which he can study visitors before they arrive-vanishing utterly, like a mountain goat, if they are not to his taste...
...existentialists. But in Tillich, the individual development is tied to a supernatural Logos, "the source of all physical and moral laws." Everyone is impelled toward Logos by the silent voice" or conscience within him. The immoral act, then, is not a violation of a specific rule, but a cowardly retreat from conscience and the responsibility of Becoming...
...apprehension that rippled through the world's capitals on the news of Kennedy's murder. European statesmen feared that Johnson, even though he had helped move the U.S. away from isolationism as a fledgling Representative under Franklin D. Roosevelt, would withdraw G.I.s from the Continent and retreat into a Fortress America. Asians worried that Johnson, even though he had been one of F.D.R.'s most ardent New Dealers, would not be "flexible" and "liberal" enough. Africans fretted that Johnson, although he had outraged Southern conservatives in 1960 when he tacked civil rights legislation onto a minor bill...
...uniform is a pair of torn khaki trousers patched with adhesive tape, and the "in" gun is a $1,000 Winchester 21 double shotgun. A few preserves even have their own aircraft landing strips ("Taxi Right Up to the Clubhouse," boasts California's Hidden Valley Club, favorite retreat of Lawrence Welk and Oilman Earl Gilmore). Wisconsin's Rainbow Springs stocks pheasant, quail, partridge and ducks, offers a 41-room clubhouse, skeet and trap ranges, a swimming pool, ice-skating, and an 18-hole golf course...
...early as 1857, the authors contend, Democratic and Republican leaders had become intransigent, so that the future Presidents' moderation "would become operative only when the other side retreated from its present position. Yet neither Lincoln nor Davis could regard a retreat from his particular position as aught but surrender--hence there would be no retreat...