Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rivers of our national life will flow onward and not backward. Change as such one need not fear. It is the temper in which changes are born that matters. That temper implies a readiness to recognize the claims of others to civilized living, a willingness to submit the means for the attainment of that end to the traditional methods of discussion and debate, and an avowal so to arrange our institutional life as to make it realize, so far as humanly possible, the content of the new and growing liberty...
...Backward Mexico...
...Mexico backward and primitive. . . ." 'Sblood! The University of Mexico was founded many years before Henry Hudson ever saw Manhattan Island. There is hardly a Mexican town that does not possess some church or other building that illustrates the stately architecture of the Spanish period and back of that are the wonderful relics of Aztec and Mayan architecture which was in full flower centuries before the Spanish...
Your adjectives backward and primitive might justly be applied to the Mayo and Tarahumari Indians who live in the mountains of Sonora and Chihuahua but would you be satisfied to have American culture judged by the hillbillies of Kentucky and Tennessee or the crackers of Georgia and Florida? And I believe that even today you can find within fifty miles of Manhattan Island . . . plenty of backward and primitive people...
...didn't blow up. It didn't backfire. It didn't stop dead in the middle of the street. But it did beat a 1938 Ford on a traffic light; it sped backward up a hill at 35 miles an hour; and it hit 25 in five seconds from a dead start half-way up the same hill...