Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spelled Backward. In his campaign for Governor, Rockefeller has spared neither himself nor his pocketbook. Overweight for years, he lost 40 lbs. before he began to run, is now a trim 6 ft. 3 in., 205 lbs. He owns four airplanes, one of them a jet, and each day he takes off from his personal airport at Winrock bound for a campaign destination. When he arrives, a just-plain-folks secondhand bus, driven there the night before, is waiting to carry him over back roads to tiny hamlets and home towns. The Rockefeller bus is plastered with "Win with...
...every day, sometimes four hours at a time. His blue-green eyes sparkle with the light of a mind still aggressive in the pursuit of learning. No other Justice has less formal education; yet none is more widely read than the libertarian Alabamian who deprecates himself as "a rather backward country fellow...
...their successors-Tom C. Clark and Sherman Minton-consistently disagreed with him. Black's wife died in 1951, plunging him into gloom for six years, until he married his secretary (and quickly taught her tennis). Amid all this, Black was alarmed at the Court's bend-over-backward opinions during the McCarthy-era prosecution of real or suspected Communists. One after another, his dissents contained such phrases as "I regret, deeply regret," and "this weird, debilitating interpretation...
HAYDN: MASS IN TIME OF WAR (Deutsche Grammophon). This is the first of Haydn's six last Masses, those great, sturdy monuments of faith that look backward musically to Handel and forward to Beethoven. Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform the superb work so deliberately that it seems staid at first but builds slowly to an impressive climax in the Agnus Dei, with its insistent rolls of drums that give the work its popular title, the Paukenmesse or Drum Mass...
...pleasant field. She stoops, picks a daisy, starts plucking its petals while counting, in the fashion of children from time immemorial. "One, two, three . . ." A man's doom-laden voice comes in stronger and stronger, finally drowning out the child's words. The man is count ing backward: "Ten, nine, eight . . ." The countdown ends, and the screen erupts in atomic explosion, followed by the voice of Lyndon Baines Johnson, who says somberly: "These are the stakes: to make a world in which all of God's children can live, or go into the dark. We must either...