Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flustered Nationalist officials, obviously unprepared for the outburst, finally called out troops. From his mountain retreat at Sun Moon Lake in central Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sped north to Taipei, called out a total of 33,000 troops, placed Taipei under martial law, imposed strict curfew regulations. Total estimated casualties: at least two Chinese killed, nine Americans injured, one seriously...
Behind the Amis vogue is a conscious retreat from Utopia. The "new men'' have withdrawn from politics-and politics has withdrawn from them. Amis himself spelled it out in a pamphlet entitled Socialism and the Intellectuals. Fumblingly written but painfully sincere, it may be the first authentic manifesto of an apolitical literary age. Amis confesses that he finds politics a bore, and that he votes the Labor ticket as a kind of conditioned reflex-two admissions which infuriated British Laborites and old-line liberals. Analyzing his own apathy, Amis makes the pertinent reflection that intellectuals are political romantics...
...remarkably resolute rebellion against the whole Eisenhower program by the G.O.P. Old Guard. Also with each passing day Congressmen were getting themselves committed to new budget cuts and-in the absence of any public clamor in defense of Ike's program-taking up political positions from which retreat might be difficult...
Advance was not quite the word of the day: there were some more worried by retreat. The continental nations were irritated by the British decision to withdraw some 13,000 troops from Europe within a year and to put their chief reliance in nuclear weapons. France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau argued heatedly that unless conventional forces were maintained, NATO would have to use nuclear weapons in even a minor defensive action, and thus might touch off an atomic holocaust. Norway and 'The Netherlands were also worried about having nothing but nuclear eggs in the basket. Aware...
Councilor Al Vellucci was forced to retreat yesterday, as the Cambridge City Council outvoted him, 7 to 1, to grant Harvard's petition for a steampipe across Prescott...