Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Supreme Court, his case snowballed. Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox Bow Incident) accused the administration of "seeking to reduce the university to a manageable mediocrity," handed in his resignation as a lecturer in English. Economist Arthur L. Grey Jr. declared that the university was "in full retreat" from democracy, and Biologist Thomas Little resigned after accusing Stout of granting faculty raises on the basis of "favoritism...
...fairgrounds, then disrobed and went out to Koinonia to urge the community to move. Last week Koinonia's president, Virginia-born Norman Long, 32, still a member of the Baptist Church, and Clarence Jordan, 44, were planning a move that looked to some like the beginning of retreat. Koinonia will open a branch farm at Neshanic Station, N.J. Jordan insisted that this is no retreat; the Northern farm will be used chiefly as a rest center for Koinonians with "battle fatigue." Said Norman Long: "There's no value in thinking what may happen. We are simply living...
...Russia, where the bells were cast, there exists, we pray, a sect of monks who are the original trustees of the bells. Either the present Quasimodos of Lowell House must go to these learned men for lessons, or one of the brothers must be persuaded to leave his peaceful retreat. If the monks are made to realize that the mission will constitute an errand of mercy to thousands, we know that they will consent. We could not face life if they refused...
...fearsome gulf between Moslem Morocco (see FOREIGN NEWS) and the Christian West. But miles south of the ancient Moslem holy city of Fez, high in the oak-thicketed Atlas Mountains, a band of black-robed Roman Catholic monks last week went quietly about their accustomed work: building a retreat where Moroccans and Europeans can meet, trade social and political theories, and learn each other's foreign ways. Their oasis of understanding is Morocco's only Christian monastery, the Benedictine Priory of Christ le Roi at Tioumliline...
This was the setting of their life. How did they lead it? Their two guiding principles were both profoundly Jewish-ritual purity and apocalypticism, i.e., the expectation of the end of the world. They saw their desert retreat as symbolizing the desert wanderings of the Jews under Moses. And their asceticism was not for its own sake but a preparation for the new dispensation. Like the first Christians they held all things in common, looking forward to the characteristics of life in the New Age: unity, brotherhood, love. They identified themselves, the Congregation of the Poor, with the "meek...