Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Generation, I thank you for the article. I feel more strongly than ever that the force causing my generation to join churches, nurse our babies (indeed, have them at all!) and raise little vegetable gardens in our subdivision rectangles is not nearly so much dread of The Bomb as retreat from the dank void of Godless intellectualism that shrouded us Depression babies, and that Mencken symbolized...
...British, who find glorious words for both victories and defeats, have an expression for their retreat from imperialism. They call it "creative abdication...
...hours later, while furious Frenchmen circled his refuge in the Palais d'Eté, honking their horns, Mollet admitted shakily to newsmen: "I saw in their faces the look of total miscomprehension and hatred." His hands trembled, and his voice was little more than a whisper. His first retreat was to accept the resignation of 79-year-old General Georges Catroux, whom he had appointed Minister for Algeria (TIME, Feb. 13). Catroux' appointment had been a political blunder in the first place. To Algerian French, Catroux was "the liquidator'' of France's presence in Syria...
...path of interposition led in a direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts. But they were caught in a way of life, a political position and a social structure from which retreat was not easy. In Richmond this week, the governors of Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia will meet with Virginia's Governor Thomas Stanley to discuss the doctrine of interposition. No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil...
...great difficulty of my whole career as a painter is that what I love most . . . holds little of interest for most people ... I love the approach of winter, the retreat of winter, the change from snow to rain and vice versa, the decay of vegetation and the resurgence of plant life in the spring. These to me are exciting and beautiful, an endless panorama of beauty and drama, but . . . the mass of humanity remains either bored and indifferent or actually hostile...