Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with him in his carriage to the War Department or to the White House. As noted in a famous letter (now in the Smithsonian) that Lincoln wrote about Company K and its captain, Mr. Lincoln often stayed at the Soldiers' Home, which was then called the Soldiers' Retreat...
...took the lead at the start of the Preakness. Front-running No Robbery was not entered in the race, so Willie Shoemaker, on Candy Spots, knew he would have to stay close to the pace to prevent the swift New York colt from "stealing" the race. With longshot Rural Retreat running close to Never Bend, Candy Spots saved ground, about two lengths behind the loaders...
Unlike many a modern intellectual. Arnold did not retreat into ivory-tower es-theticism. sour stoical isolation or epicurean sensuality. Instead, in the muscular Victorian fashion, he drowned his sorrow at his loss of faith by working to keep alive a critical spirit in an age of complacency. Though his purpose was solemn. Arnold often indulged in levity that disturbed the specific gravity of fellow Victorians-and led to a cartoon by irreverent Max Beerbohm (see cut') mocking them both. The cultural history of man, he wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between...
...average U.S. professor is no Socrates. In the face of possible wrath or ridicule, he tends to retreat to "safe" positions. By such faculty flinching, everyone is cheated. Who knows what the world loses, wrote John Stuart Mill, in "the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral"-or subversive or even Philistine...
...nothing else, at least proclaims consistently and vehemently and unwaveringly that it alone possess the one complete truth in the universe? I am torn." Montaigne's remark that "We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish out real liberty and out principal retreat and solitude" is good advice...