Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Civility may be in retreat on other fronts, but most newspapers still routinely decline to print the names of alleged rape victims. That courtesy is seldom required by law and rarely afforded the victims of other crimes. Herman J. Obermayer, 53, editor and publisher of the Northern Virginia Sun, an evening daily that goes to 20,000 households just south of the nation's capital, thinks it is time the custom ended...
Evangelical visibility [Dec. 26] is due in part to the failure of the liberal establishment to do anything except follow the line of retreat, retrenchment and unconcern for the true Gospel. But the Evangelicals have not arrived. The movement has only reached a point where, if it does not assault and change the sources of power in America, it will decline. I refer to the mainline denominations, the liberal theological seminaries, the large secularized universities, the business world, the media and other powerful organizations that still go their old ways without repentance or significant alteration...
There's nothingplatonic about Plato's Retreat...
...TIME'S Behavior writer, John Leo diligently strives to keep up with fast-changing U.S. sexual mores. In this pursuit, Leo and a companion visited Plato's Retreat, a swingers' club in the basement of Manhattan's Ansonia Hotel. His report...
...States in the early Fifties, and when he refused to alter his stance he was denied re-entry into the country after a European vacation. Insulted, he purchased a villa in Switzerland, where he lived until his death last month at the age of 88. He rarely left his retreat, coming to America once, two years ago, to receive a special Academy Award, and going to England several years ago to be knighted...