Word: retreatism
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...University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 to the Board of Overseers on Oct. 8, 1956, approximately 1,200 additional students were living in Harvard undergraduate housing above the number the dorms were built to accommodate. Upperclassmen without space in their houses were being forced to retreat to the freshmen-only yard, taking up residence in Wigglesworth Hall. The College was in desperate need of more space...
...Like Pan's Labyrinth, where the young girl at the center of the film dwelt simultaneously in the horrifying reality of war-ravaged Spain and in a Wonderland retreat of fauns and goblins, The Orphanage zooms along on two parallel tracks. One is realistic, prosaic; it says that Laura's grief over Simon's loss has driven her to desperation and toward suicidal madness. The other, with acknowledgments to J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan, is fantastic, or poetic: it suggests that her grief has opened her to other realities, put her in touch with souls crying from the beyond for justice...
...embark on the impending retreat away from the stresses of campus life, our expectation should not be to encounter more racism because we’re away from Harvard. We should expect the same, more or less, for better or for worse...
...courses were offered. He said the details of the Core’s implementation were also left to a committee.In an interview before yesterday’s meeting, Mendelsohn said that professors were ready to move on from a four-year debate marked, at times, by “retreat and sheer exhaustion.”“I think that the Faculty is ready to see something approved,” Mendelsohn said. “My sense is that there is enough general enthusiasm about the new program, and enough confidence that the committee appointed will...
...Pentagon announced that35,000 more soldiers are likely to head to Iraq before year's end to maintain the troop surge. Meanwhile, those most responsible for launching the war continue to retreat from public life. Unlike soldiers, who can be barred from shedding their uniforms when their enlistment ends if they are bound for or in a war zone, civilians get no such "stop loss" orders...