Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overriding question facing mid-20th century America, said Nixon, is simply that of "the survival of our civilization." What is the immediate answer to that question? Clearly, the policy that "retreat before aggression can only make war inevitable"-a policy followed both by the Republican Eisenhower Administration and by the Democratic 86th Congress ("I specifically want to pay tribute to members of the Democratic Party in the Congress for putting statesmanship above partisanship...
...these factors helped to explain Britain's singular preoccupation last week with the need, and the expectancy, of bringing off fruitful negotiations at the summit. Other NATO partners were prepared to talk at the summit, but - thanks largely to Khrushchev's retreat from his original "either or" ultimatum - were in no mood to yield easily. No longer so fearful that a real ultimatum showdown with Russia was at hand, they felt less need to make a parade of unreal unanimity...
Richard Strauss completed his last opera, Capriccio, in 1941. but the world that he and co-Librettist Clemens Kraus invoked in their "conversation piece for music" was as remote in spirit from the chaos of a Bremen or a Mannheim as Strauss's Bavarian mountain retreat was from the final convulsions of the Third Reich. The subject is opera itself-the relative merits of words and music-and it might just as aptly have been summed up under the title Six Characters in Search of an Opera. In a rococo salon near Paris, the six main figures sit chatting...
With their retreat in the direction of Harvard Square cut off by the appearance of the Cambridge Police, the four suspects fied across the bridge. Due to the timely arrival of an MDC cruiser, however, they were apprehended before reaching the Boston side of the river...
...first time in seven years President Eisenhower will not be on hand to throw out the season's first ball today when the unpromising Washington Senators face the Baltimore Orioles in the Presidential opener in Washington. Busy at his golfing retreat in Augusta, Ga., Ike has deputized Vice-President Nixon to perform...