Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They came in from Amherst Saturday hell-bent on victory, the UMass Minutemen did, laughing and sneering at the undersized, underdog Crimson. But when the time came to march back from the Harvard Stadium turf to Dillon Field House, the visitors walked in a dazed retreat, as the Harvard football team had outmuscled, outhustled and basically outclassed the Minutemen by a score...
...defend a former French outpost called Muc Wa, which they do successfully until there is an inexplicable change in strategy and they are forced to withdraw into ambush and massacre. The picture is good at catching the absurdity and futility of the operation, but in the long siege-and-retreat sequence, Director Post's failure to rise above simple realism becomes a problem. The scenes here should be spookier and more suspenseful, imparting a developing sense of the madness of isolation in an alien land where the native enemy has all the advantages of terrain and bred...
...like the opening of F-Troop--the clip where the cavalry charges onto the prairie, then beats an equally hasty retreat as the film rewinds...
...what the U.S. should do now about Afghanistan, Iranian and Pakistani critics merely lapse into vague expressions of frustration; they have few recommendations. But that, too, is part of the problem with CENTO: it is afflicted with a profound, inarticulate discontent with American policy, which is viewed as "retreat," "withdrawal," "failure of will" or "abandonment...
These steps scarcely add up to anything like a general U.S. corporate retreat-nor should they. In South Africa itself, such a withdrawal is a strategy favored mainly by some white liberals and middle-class black activists. Though they often talk pullout in public, the black militants within the labor force are far more pragmatic in private. A black union leader told McWhirter: "I would say companies should withdraw. But if they did, it would be death...