Word: backward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate, TIME caught on, and it became part of the American and world scene, its presence reaffirmed in humor, fiction and legend. Its early style with its inverted prose and piled-up adjectives was endlessly spoofed, notably in a parody by Wolcott Gibbs in The New Yorker ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind...
...Your article calling for the return of the draft is an enormous step backward in the striving for a humane world. No renewal. American or other, should be based on blood. A man who specializes in killing other men-regardless of ideology-is an assassin. Forcing youths to do this is a crime...
...other powers with peacekeeping forces in Lebanon must have moved beyond the unattractive military options that now face them--pulling out to let violence erupt immediately, or upping the peacekeeping pressure until that violence becomes stronger than any barrier. And they must avoid the other easy, backward-looking--and unfair--tack of blaming the violence on the Israeli pullout, so long clamored for, and trying hypocritically to reinvolve Israel in Lebanon's affairs. Instead, the U.S. must marshal all its resources of political analysis for a deeper look--even if it means helping Lebanon change its political structure. When curing...
...instant bestseller is the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, 393 pages of carefully chosen speeches and interviews by China's political leader. The book assembles Deng's pragmatic prescriptions for reforming China's backward economy and healing social wounds caused by years of fierce ideological persecution under Mao. Publication of the material in collected form gives Deng's thoughts the stamp of official doctrine recalling Mao's notorious Little Red Book first issued...
...handful of Mozart's myriad works were regularly performed. With composers like Schumann, Brahms and Wagner churning out masterwork after masterwork, there was little need to revive the past. But as the musical repertory gradually evolved into a monument to the 19th century, inquiring performers began to look backward. Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), an English musician and instrumentmaker, rediscovered the nearly forgotten world of the viol, lute and clavichord, and Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska almost singlehanded shattered the romantic tradition of performing Bach on the piano. "You play Bach your way," she once told a colleague...