Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women in the Dunes, you might have guessed, tells the story of a woman and a man in a hole, in the dunes. And that was the thing that bothered me about this longish Japanese film: why was The Woman forced by her backward comrades to live alone in a huge hole in the sand by the seashore? Weekly, they lower her enough water and rations to survive in her ramshackle hut. When a young school teacher-amateur entomologist (bugs) happens along, they let him (Eiji Okada) down the rope ladder for her (Kyoko Kishida...
...Jagan's P.P.P., Burnham soon soured on Cheddi's Marxist rantings and, fired by his own ambition, set up the anti-Communist P.N.C. in 1957. If his ideas today are sometimes vague, he is an avowed friend of the U.S.-and needs to be, since the backward colony desperately needs...
...tremendous esthetic experience. Changes in taste and smell are relatively uncommon. But synesthesias-crossovers from one sense to another-are common, so that subjects "hear" colors or "smell" music. Ideas become visible. Thought and emotion are inseparable. Memory is oddly affected: the ability to repeat a set of numbers backward, or do simple tests, is grossly impaired, but long-ago events may be recalled accurately in minutest detail...
...Backward" is a word no longer used in polite Western circles to describe the underdeveloped nations of the world. Yet this is precisely the word that I. R. Sinai uses, plus some even blunter ones, in an angrily eloquent book on the problems and prospects of the new nations. "The international atmosphere," writes Sinai, "is absolutely clogged with slogans, speeches and books extolling the 'Great Revolution' that has supposedly been brought about in all these populous territories. What we are witnessing in reality is a colorful masquerade, a sort of superior political orgy, superficially exciting but essentially undermining...
Even exemplars of the Gubernatorial group, like Rockefeller, Scranton, and Romney, have to count on voters who would prefer Congressional or Goldwater Republicans. And their legislative programs must to a large extent be tailored to the wishes of the rural, backward Republicans who dominate their legislatures. More significantly, Gubernatorial Republicans need the votes of Congressional and Goldwaterite delegates to win the Republican Presidential nomination...