Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Potting Shed is that most truly dramatic of detective stories, a what-done-it, a shadowy trek backward from an effect to a cause. James Callifer is divorced from a wife who loved him, is unwelcome in his implacably rationalist family. Incapable of loving, of really feeling alive, he is equally incapable of understanding why. Everything earlier than a moment in the family potting shed when he was 14 is blotted out of his mind, has been carefully blacked out of his family's, and offers not a chink of light to his psychoanalyst. The journey back-Greene ingeniously...
...villagers of Mokhimpur in Uttar Pradesh were nobodies. Spurned by their neighbors because their subcaste was regarded as backward and ignorant, the Baghbhans of Mokhimpur had little to sustain them but their faith in the Hindus' God of Preservation, Vishnu. Some day-the Baghbhans have told each other for generations-Vishnu himself, in his reincarnation as Lord Ramachandra. would turn up in their village in the guise of a sadhu, or holy man, and from then on. all would be well. This faith has long made their village a favorite target for the hordes of self-appointed holy...
...possible to turn backward the clock of nuclear discovery and development, nor to repeal the nuclear age." So declared U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. last week as he launched an important new U.S. offer in the continuing never-say-die attempt to promote workable disarmament. Specifically, the U.S. proposed that the powers agree...
...think, is what poetry ought to be. Another poem of his, The History of Jazz, is nostalgic and wistful for things, but not twisted around them so that it can't talk. His third poem is declamatory and more than most energetic, filled like a great stuffed pie with backward looking happy smiles on the dead and useless bodies (suffocating names, proficiences, and adjectives--states symbolized) revered because they are dead and useless and can't kick. The poet treats these bodies to expressions--Cockadoodle doo!--and then hands them to the strangler who near the end is caught reading...
...forecasting consisted principally of watching the cyclones as they drifted majestically, dragging the weather with them. Trouble was that the cyclones did not always behave. They were always ringed by counterclockwise winds, but the winds were sometimes gentle and sometimes violent. Sometimes the cyclones stood still, or even moved backward...