Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the '50s, the C.P. went underground, forced to retreat in the face of the House Un-American Activities Committee. It is hard, now, to understand the kind of fear that the committee inspired; Mitford describes the terror of the blacklist, and the sense that the FBI followed suspected party members everywhere. It has all been told before, of course, but rarely from such an honest, individual stance. Mitford has a way of engaging--and holding--the reader's sympathy, and the HUAC loses any legitimacy it might have held in the face of her good-humored description...
...Luckenbach belongs on an MGM back lot. Its rise began in 1970 when a slow-talking rancher and raconteur named Hondo Crouch bought up half the town, supposedly because of his unhappiness with the saloon's irregular hours. Soon the place was a laid-back, beer-stocked afternoon retreat for country musicians. Among them: Jerry Jeff Walker, who brought old pals like Willie Nelson by for a visit and in 1973 recorded his Viva Terlingua album there...
...Midget Deli, a favorite student retreat made famous in "Love Story" as the meeting place for Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw, closed down this summer. It will be replaced by a representative of that well-known chain, Howard Johnson...
...President focused his first selling efforts on two influential Republicans. Twice last week he spoke on the phone to Gerald Ford. First Carter called the former President at his vacation retreat in Vail, Colo. The next afternoon Ford called Carter at Camp David; the President thanked him "for this example of bipartisan support." In between conversations, Ford had been briefed for 90 minutes by Sol Linowitz (who had negotiated the terms, along with Ellsworth Bunker), and by Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the White House, Carter had former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...time for a profligate assimilation of the world is past or passing. It is now time to begin refining the experiences that life has provided. Had he chosen another line of work, Lowell implies, he might be faced with an involuntary retreat...