Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Later, Baby put his position more bluntly. "I made no promises," he said. "I just said we were engaged so I could get her into the same hotel suites with me." Linda dashed back, spent several days chasing Baby by phone, then made a face-saving retreat to a film festival at Uruguay's Punta del Este. At festival's end she got a cable: RETURN QUICKLY...
...Revolutionary Prestes, black-eyed, bony and frail at 60, working in the open will be a novelty. More than 30 years ago, as a young army officer, he led a column of 1,500 fanatic men who staged a legendary 16,000-mile retreat through Brazil's jungled backlands after an attempted revolution by army left-wingers had flopped. He then fled to Russia, worked as a hydroelectric engineer, became a member of the executive committee of the Communist International. Back in Brazil in 1935, Prestes sparked another insurrection; his men rose in the night and slit the throats...
...designed lighting fixtures. In the Richard H. Mandel house at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., he produced in 1935 the first modern house in the International Style (as contrasted with Frank Lloyd Wright's indigenous style) to be designed by a U.S.-born architect. In the bachelor's retreat he built for A. Conger Goodyear at Old Westbury, on Long Island, he deftly applied modern principles to an intimate, luxurious small house. His collection of medals and awards grew through the years. Two Architectural League Gold Medal winners are now rated as architectural landmarks...
...tidal waves of conquest have continued to sweep over the island's pebbled shores. Cyprus has been ruled by medieval Knights Templar, Venetians, Turks and British. By 1953, when Author Lawrence (Justine) Durrell (TIME, Aug. 26) arrived in Cyprus in search of a writer's low-cost retreat, the Greek Cypriots (four-fifths of the population) were scrawling their own historic handwriting on the village walls: "Enosis and only enosis" (union, i.e., with Greece...
Harold Stassen's future as presidential disarmament adviser had been behind him for weeks, but nonetheless he and President Eisenhower went warmly through the formalities of a Washington leave-taking last week. In a phone call to the President's retreat in Thomasville, Ga., Stassen told Ike that at long, long last he had decided to leave the Administration to run for governor of Pennsylvania.* Stassen followed up the call with a formal letter of resignation, received a genuinely warm reply: "In the important posts to which you have been assigned, I have been most appreciative of your...