Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eternal mystery is that an artist who seemed to his contemporaries so backward-looking should seem to his successors so forward-looking. Compared with Monteverdi or Beethoven or Schoenberg, he was not an innovator. Historically Bach's distinction was to summarize and culminate all the musical developments that led up to him. But he did this with such subtlety and daring, such piety and passion, that he ended up reconciling, completing and extending everything he touched, thereby preparing music for the centuries ahead. It has been said that the history of philosophy consists of a series of footnotes...
...cross between Picasso and a monkey, as he was in the novel. In a part that calls for relentless coyness, Candice Bergen cannot be said to act, but her beauty is so compelling that the male audience, like Orpheus, can hardly be blamed for forsaking the future for a backward glance...
...trouble with the American lib eral middle class, Abbie complains, is that-among other things-it lives the myth of Abraham and Isaac backward: " 'God is dead,' they cry, 'and we did it for the kids.' " (Abraham, of course, was prepared to kill his own son for God.) On student revolt, he comments: "And so you ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent." He is particularly ferocious toward the press: "The headline of the Daily News today reads...
...Helping backward nations grow food [Nov. 22] is not necessarily the wisest course for them...
Similarly, it is in our own interest to assist backward areas to do what they can do best (however badly that may be) in terms of what we need most-even if that involves our going back into food production on a grander scale...