Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pleasant Weekend. At his press conference the President, newly tanned from a weekend at his Camp David retreat in the Maryland mountains, wore a pleased expression. Said he: "In the past week there has been such great progress in both Houses that I think the prospects are looking up. As a matter of fact, I would say the prospects are rosy that there will be placed before the public this fall a record of accomplishment of which any Congress, any Administration, could be proud. Particularly the farm bill that passed in the House and the tax bill in the Senate...
...Retreat Denied. Rightly or wrongly, a group of N.E.A.'s teachers also made it obvio that they had little patience with such critics as Historian Arthur (Educational Wastelands} Bestor and Albert (Quackery in the Public Schools} Lynd...
...convention session, John K. Norton of Columbia's Teachers College apparently spoke for the majority when he lashed back at those who believe that the "new education" is leading the nation into an intellectual retreat. "I make no apology," said he, "for bringing interest into educational method ... I also offer no apology for the belief that modern education should have purposes which take account of social as well as individual needs." Having stated their complaints, the teachers proceeded to state some positions...
...what is the final step?" Says he: "When the world of reality becomes unmanageable, a common practice is to retreat into a symbolic dream world . . . The psychiatric profession classifies this retreat as schizophrenia...
...another Glorious Fourth-July 4, 1863-marked the climax of the battle to preserve the Union. In the west on that day, after a six-week siege, Confederate Vicksburg fell to General Ulysses S. Grant. And in the east, General Robert E. Lee's forces began their sad retreat south across the Potomac after three days of the biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. history had known-Gettysburg...