Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years later, Joan Dunn quit teaching forever. Last week she told why, in a new book called Retreat from Learning (McKay; $3)-a disturbing glimpse of big-city high-school life at its worst, and an outraged indictment of modern educational theories from one who has seen them in action...
...expanded program, but also because they think Harvard really has no responsibility to grow. The University's primary obligation, they argue, is to maintain its own educational quality unblemished. While history may easily prove this group right about the college's chances of successful expansion, their advocacy of retreat from the problem is unfortunate. Their arguments seem as snobbish as Jonathan Swift's "modest proposal" that poor children be sold and fed to rich children in order lower class incomes. Unfortunately, unlike Swift, they take their argument seriously. They fail to realize, however, that the University can hardly remain...
...doubly wrong to concentrate on it in our relations with the Soviet bloc. The Communists have several ways to press us-release of prisoners, trade, travel, etc. If we continue in the present vein, we will remain on the defensive, and the years to come will merely witness one retreat after another...
Unable to travel during much of his life because of wars, Jaeger in recent summers has been going to Europe (in 1952 the classicist visited Greece for the first time); but otherwise he likes to retreat to New Hampshire or Vermont, where he can answer letters that have accumulated over the year and can get his only exercise by walking, very slowly and contemplatively, over the hilly countryside. "Of course the walks are getting shorter now," he notes...
...disarmed, bound and gagged five constables; in another a gunman shot and critically wounded a British mining engineer. In still another a Greek Cypriot policeman fell dead from an assassin's bullet. In the week's worst incident, as reported by one newsman, chivalry caused a British retreat. As British troops approached a village near the Baths of Aphrodite, they were met by a solid phalanx of island women, Aphrodite's daughters shielding Ares' stone-hurling sons. Thus protected, the men showered stones on the British Tommies, forcing them to retire...