Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...denial, except for the most serious crimes, is of course contrary to the fundamentals of Anglo-American law. Thus constitutional experts do not believe that the Supreme Court would permit preventive detention. Says Harvard Professor Robert McCloskey: "An educated guess is that the court would consider this a step backward, and the mood of the court is not to tolerate steps backward...
...other myths: the airborne colleen and the earthbound Jew, Peter Pan and Peter Schlemiel, the miserable winner and the happy loser. Like most myths, they contain an indissoluble grain of truth. Mia Farrow has been cowering from show-business success like a cornered rabbit. Hoffman has been swimming backward in it like a lobster. To Mia, life is colored with pastels and studded with magic stones; to Hoffman, it is a black-and-white documentary. She can skip down Manhattan's Third Avenue without creating a ripple. When Hoffman is recognized, he becomes a fifth Beatle; every night outside...
Budgie Bill is not one of your ordinary English tramps. Wearing a fawn-colored overcoat with wing collars and an ancient trilby that looks like "a burst concertina," he haunts villages in the daytime and cities at night. More startling, he always walks backward and, if he pauses in his perambulations, he lies down instead of sitting...
...take long to realize that old Budgie is none other than God himself, posing this time as a wise, lovable friend to the mad and the innocent. Robson's message is that they would be just as well off without him. Indifferent to their suffering, he shuffles on backward, blinking at sunbeams and thinking thoughts like: "Each speck was a world just like ours and our world was only another speck dancing in someone else's old barn...
Robson's novel begins as a chatty account of village life that has charm reminiscent of J. D. Salinger. It soon becomes a vivid nightmare world of putrefying animal corpses and menacing gangs of anonymous attackers. In the end, Backward to the Front of the Day is unsatisfying. In his rage against God, Robson stacks so much against his human characters that they topple toward death before they fully come to life...