Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criticized the Catholic Church for trying to impose its morality on others and called Massachusetts "the most backward state in this nation as regards to birth control." He also rapped the press for what he claimed was a distorted coverage of his B.U. speech...
FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A long, loving search-both forward and backward-for the essence of parenthood; a tribute to that most neglected figure in American fiction -the Jewish father...
Everyone knows that communications between Peking and Moscow are scrambled at best. Now Radio Peking has set a new record for incomprehensibility in the land of Mao. Its Russian-language service has taken to replaying tapes of its anti-Soviet diatribes backward. The weird garble goes on for 21 hours at a stretch, and in London one mystified Pekingologist, who was monitoring the show, finally shrugged: "I suppose there's just nobody left in Peking who knows one end of a Russian tape from the other...
...film is at its best when it takes affectionate backward glances: at Harold Lloyd with some adroit window ledgerdemain, at the Modcap costumes of the period, at such ricky-ticky tunes of the '20s as Baby Face and Japanese Sandman. But when nostalgia dims, so does the picture's brightness. The new songs by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn are tepid at best, and Joe Layton's dance interludes are as spurious as bathtub gin, introduced solely to juice up a weak scenario...
...Family planning finally got a friend in Sripati Chandrasekhar, 48, a world-famed demographer who became the new Minister of State for Health. He replaces Sushila Nayar, a cheerful but backward-looking spinster who had never shown any enthusiasm for birth control programs and, in fact, sometimes did not even bother to spend her department's allocated budget. Chandrasekhar, who plans to emphasize the use of the loop contraceptive for women, will enforce an all-out program to reduce India's birth rate. -As for food, the new minister was certain to bring a sense of urgency...