Word: retreatism
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...Retreat and Reboot I was thrilled to see a front cover of TIME that offered some answers on getting us out of the world's financial mess [Feb. 16]. I believe the first responsibility of every nation is to protect its citizens against long-term unemployment and the resultant poverty. I am not advocating tariffs or large-scale protection from imports but it is important that we maintain employment through restoring our essential manufacturing base, which has been considerably eroded through manufacturers going offshore. Add to this the encouragement of consumers to buy homemade goods and products and if this...
Before he was Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger would hold an annual summer retreat for his former theology students that focused each year on a single theme of acute concern. Three months after his rise to the papacy, Benedict XVI continued the tradition with a closed-door encounter in the Vatican's breezy summer residence, Castel Gandolfo. The topic chosen that first year with him as Pope was Islam, and the keynote speaker was Father Samir Khalil Samir, a soft-spoken, Cairo-born Jesuit and an expert on Muslim history and theology...
...wonder that travelers are fast discovering this city. During the day, the temperature hovers at an eternal 88°F, and the heat rises languidly off the cobblestone streets. Like the locals, you can retreat into the cool, moist refuges of the ancient stone homes, most with walls so thick that air-conditioning becomes redundant. One of my favorite places to chill: Getsemani, the tiny European-style section of the Old Town - once the poor neighborhood just across the moat but now the cool Greenwich Village-style area of the city. Getting around the Old Town is a cinch; cabs...
...Born before the first commercial radio stations went on the air, Harvey fashioned a personality and career that spanned the medium's Golden Age, its postwar retreat into a pop jukebox and its later resurgence as the place for news and talk - exactly what Harvey did for more than 75 years. He spoke with clarion clarity, his voice an elocution teacher's pride, easily parodied but intimate, powerful and oh-so-precise. It was "nee-ews," never the lazy "nooze," and "reck-ord," not "reckerd." For emphasis, he'd add a vowel to a word with abutting consonants...
...Disordered eating, without clearly established criteria, falls somewhere in the middle of a slippery slope from normal to abnormal. It’s a fuzzy line between caring about what you put into your body and being neurotic about food. As a result, it’s easier to retreat into silence than to press the issue. It also remains a private battle because the national reluctance to address this condition reflects the individual’s reluctance to talk about it. Trust me, I’ve been on both sides and I like writing about it probably...