Word: backward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic Party is like a man riding backward in a railroad car: it never sees anything until it has passed...
...music is to be a feature of theatrical production the patronizing public has a right to insist that the human interpreter shall be present to exercise his traditional and time honored function. . . . The pro posed mechanization is a backward step in the amusement, entertainment and educational world. It means the destruction of the inspirational glamor which has long surrounded the theatre orchestra...
...which Jews have been reviled through the centuries (see p. 44), some for cramping into commercial dimensions a grave, long-drawn folk epic. The Palm. Sunday entry into Jerusalem. was a complex, splendid orchestration of crowds flowing in great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant. In the street outside...
...backward glance at the Winter Season just closed in Buenos Aires reveals that the outstanding event was not the Hoover visit (TIME, Dec. 24), but the sudden and epochal decision of paunchy, prosperous Argentine males to adopt sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands...
...What is needed today, it seems to me, is a deep conviction, which should amount almost to a religious repentance, that we Chinese are backward in everything and that every other modern nation in the world is much better off than we are. For all this we have ourselves to blame! Let us no longer deceive ourselves with self-complacent talks about imperialistic powers hampering our national progress and prosperity. Let us read the recent history of Japan and bury our conceit and self-deception once for all in shame and repentance...