Word: backward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departed leader never looked backward. He looked forward and moved forward. That is what he would want...
...Looking Backward...
Romance and Propaganda. This is the opening situation of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, an engaging and still highly readable novel which was also one of the most influential books in U.S. history. Published in 1888, it sold slowly for a year, then suddenly caught on and shortly sold over a million copies. Looking Backward seemed only a sugar-coated romance ; actually, it was propaganda for a Socialist Utopia. Among those who have acknowledged its influence on their thinking have been Mark Twain, William Dean Ho wells, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, William...
...Morgan, is also a distinguished visionary: former president of pioneering Antioch College and onetime chairman of TVA. He readily admits that Bellamy's projected social system "would result in actual regimentation" and, if administered by the wrong officials, "might be a terrible incubus on society." But Looking Backward was a warmhearted vision which unquestionably speeded social reform in the U.S. and throughout the world...
Exercise and Creosote. Never strong (he lived for years on milk, raw eggs and whiskey), he contracted tuberculosis, but refused to go to a healthier climate until he had finished Looking Backward's sequel, Equality. In Colorado, the current treatment-exercise and creosote-further weakened him. He returned to Chicopee Falls, managed to walk from the carriage to the rocking chair on the front porch, slumped into it, said "Thank God I'm home." A month later, on May 22, 1898, he died...