Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impresarios established their first office in a bathroom. A friend had agreed to let them use his tony Manhattan address provided that they kept out of the way, so they installed the phone in a spare bath. In this austere retreat the opera company took shape. Backers were found, some of whom were in the Social Register, and most of them owned awnings. The company's first production was Monteverdi's 300-year-old Coronation of Poppea, performed in a Fifth Avenue drawing room for an audience...
Aron entitled his lecture series "France in the 20th Century, Continuity or Decay?" Aron maintained that although political instability may take the form of frequent changes in regime, France is becoming "more vital at the time of her retreat" from North Africa...
Before the Southern Governors' Conference in 1951, a bushy-haired, boyish-looking newsman stood up and spoke unpalatable truths. Said he: "We cannot turn our backs upon injustice simply because a black man is its victim. Nor can we find a safe retreat in the sort of legalistic buck-passing that recognizes the existence of an evil but insists it is somebody else's responsibility...
...smiled widely enough to cover the retreat of the Cheshire cat, "Pretty good...
Medicine's most widespread and stubborn enemy, the common cold, has been forced into a small but significant retreat. Epidemiologist Winston H. Price, 33, of Johns Hopkins University, last week announced development of a vaccine-proved 80% effective in initial tests-to combat a major virus that may cause up to a third of all common colds...