Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the responsibility for a continuation of such a patronizing attitude among students and faculty members must rest upon the Catholics themselves. Too often they retreat from discussions of religion; they offer a catechism answer, or the excuse "I really haven't had time to read up on this yet." It is assumed they don't think for themselves about religion. Certainly at some point the individual's act of faith becomes a distinguishing factor--Credo ut intelligam, I believe that I might understand--but up to this point explanation is surely possible, and for that matter...
...Communists." But his seven battalions, numbering more than 4,000 men, were dispersed in the surrounding countryside, and he apparently had no intention of making a do-or-die stand in the city. "No barbed wire, no trenches," he said. "With those you lock yourself in. We will retreat if attacked and then attack the enemy from the rear. This is not a war of fronts -we must be flexible." Then, all optimism gone from his voice, he added, "They will attack in ten days at most . . . We will do what...
...almost continuous line of flashes that illuminated the horizon like footlights." Said one surgeon: "Monty always begins his attacks this way. They should reach here tomorrow." Another replied: "About bloody time, too." Next day all was still. The barrage was a final concentration to cover the last retreat of ist Airborne, or, as Paul says, "all that was left...
...profit, he gives most of it to some 200 charities. But he likes to live well. He collects paintings (about 100 by Gainsborough, Bonnard, Vlaminck, etc.), houses (a Fifth Avenue duplex, an estate on the Hudson, a 15-room summer home on Fishers Island-a millionaire's retreat 135 miles from New York), cars (a Bentley, a Cadillac, four others). He loves speed, often commutes in his fast 65-ft. aluminum P-T boat to his office in the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center (of which he is chairman). He enjoys muscle-straining outdoor exercise, chops wood regularly...
Marcel Proust was all but ready to retreat to his cork-lined room himself. His father died of a stroke in 1930s, and his mother had less than two years to live. Proust had been dismissed by the critics as "one of those pretty little society boys who've managed to get themselves pregnant with literature." In the next 17 years, puffing at antiasthma cigarettes and doping himself with Trional and morphine, he would salvage 34 years of wasted time with a masterpiece...