Word: retreats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...come back to Yenan? Yang snorts. "I never left," he says. "I am too old for retreat." He simply took refuge in a cave overlooking the city. The day after the Government troops entered-after the street-sniping ended-Yang came down. Aiya! His shop was intact, but Government soldiers had taken his bedding and wares of toothpaste and Yenan brand cigarets. For two days he had been impressed as a water carrier. Now he was free again with a Government relief stock of cigarets and flour for ta bing (cakes...
...After Retreat. By far the boldest paintings in the show were the products of his Paris period: the days when Cézanne lived on the Left Bank, sat up late sipping red wine with a young writer named Émile Zola...
Materialism and science worship are in full retreat, eminent scientists leading the chase. Millikan proclaims that "the mechanistic philosophy is bankrupt." The trend is toward God, all right. Or rather, it is away from His enemies. It has become as fashionable and as easy to laugh at the blindness of ethical relativism with C. S. Lewis, the English wit, as it used to be to laugh with H. L. Mencken at the blindness of the Bible belt. But has the tone of the laughter improved? Is there...
Days of Fear. Through the days of the Indo-Chinese crisis ran a real thread of fear. Rumors of De Gaulle's return to politics ran through Paris. (It is a fact that he is leaving his retreat at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises for an apartment in the Boulevard de Courcelles...
Russia might stage an astute political retreat, while Communist propaganda would tap-tap on the U.S. conscience. Moscow indicated the line. Said Izvestia, in a bland and self-righteous editorial: "What is such monopolistic 'American responsibility' but a smoke screen for plans of expansion? Dilations to the effect that the United States is 'called upon to save' Greece and Turkey from expansion on the part of the so-called 'totalitarian states' are not new. Hitler also referred to the Bolsheviks when he wanted to open the road to conquests for himself...