Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Times. "The Administration's widely promised fight for President Eisenhower's Pentagon reorganization bill turned into a quiet, well-ordered retreat," wrote Washington Correspondent Russell Baker. Neil McElroy "congenially offered up major portions of the legislation for rewriting by the hostile House Armed Services Committee. Thus, before the rousing all-out battle pledged by the President was ever joined, Mr. McElroy had set the stage for a compromise settlement with the plan's bitterest critics...
...confirmed to the President that no changes in the meaning of any feature of the modernization program have been implied by any testimony of his." Ike himself dictated the final sentence: "Both the President and the Secretary are agreed that there can be no compromise on-or retreat from-the essentials of this legislation...
...Biscayne Bay side of Miami Beach's island, the Pérez Jiménez retreat comes equipped with the standard swimming pool and cabanas; a lush lawn dotted with royal palms, hibiscus and ixora slopes down to the bay. New Orleans-style grillwork flanks the entrance. Low and relatively compact, the two-story white stucco house is built around a patio. Downstairs is a foyer lit with a mammoth bronze lantern, a drawing room paved with black and white Spanish tiles, a spacious living room with bleached mahogany walls stained silver-grey, a bar and a Formica-walled...
...rebels, after a few scattered attacks at Government communications in Havana, have been forced once again to retreat into the Sierra Maestra mountains of Oriente province. Fighting still goes on in Oriente, but Castro's gains have been miniscule; he is in precisely the same military position he occupied at the start of his "total war" ten days ago. All that he has achieved has been embarrassment for himself...
...answers to these and sundry other questions are offered in a fictional session of bland man's buff by Sloan Wilson, the man who did more for gray flannel suits than Brooks Brothers. The novel's key setting is Pine Island, Me., a summer retreat and a kind of "perverted Garden of Eden from which one was expelled for the sin of poverty." Among the unexpelled nouveau poor are the Hunters, who eke out their stay as genteel innkeepers. Fortyish Bart Hunter is an existentially minded drunkard whose most cutting insult is to call someone "cheerful." His disillusioned...