Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abdication. That was the last straw. Fortnight ago O'Dowd announced "a retreat from reason" in a long editorial. "It has become obvious," he wrote, "that to maintain effectiveness in other important areas of thought, this newspaper must abdicate its position in the segregation controversy. We have seen the situation as being insoluble in the hands of extremists, and have sought men of good will who can sift the elements of right from the chaff of unreason on both sides of the conflict. [But] men seeking the fair solution have not, in two years, come forward. They...
Call for Action. Gaitskell might have broken Conservative unity if he had been willing to echo the demands of 30 or 35 back bench Tory rebels of the "Suez group," who smolder at the British retreat from the Suez, and accuse Eden of weakly appeasing the Arabs. Sitting behind Eden, they too wanted a new Middle Eastern approach: toughness and force. But Gaitskell refused to "go their way," and closed with a rousing peroration-"There is a desperate need at the moment for a lead which will both rally democratic forces and restore unity ... I hope the government will give...
...Manresa to train for God's service as he had once trained for the duke's. He disciplined his body with torture and fasting, then turned to his mind, bending it to his will according to a self-imposed manual of mental arms. Out of this arduous retreat came the famed Spiritual Exercises, the course of disciplined mysticism that all Jesuits must undergo in a concentrated form for eight days each year, with rules for posture, breathing, concentration and contemplation. "I can find God at all times, whenever I wish," said Ignatius, "and any man of good will...
...every seven Roman Catholic missionaries throughout the world is a Jesuit. They labor in 71 missions, 6,640 mission stations, 4,000 schools, 350 hospitals and 16 leprosaria. Second to missions the Jesuits emphasize education, then retreats; there are 174 Jesuit retreat houses (32 in the U.S.). It is the largest order in the church today. Today there are more than 32,000 Jesuits-16,521 priests, 10,741 scholastics (students in the 13-year course leading to the priesthood) and 5,637 lay brothers-and they work in 74 nations...
...published more than 80 books under 20 names, including a sober study entitled When France Occupied Europe (1792-1815). Consequently, when he makes Caroline an eyewitness to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, he knows what that eyeful was. Every page of Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach...