Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleagues say of Revilo P. Oliver, professor of classics at the University of Illinois, that "his first name is his last name spelled backward because he doesn't know if he's coming or going."* A competent Latin and Greek scholar, Oliver is a national officer of the John Birch Society. In recent issues of American Opinion, the Birch magazine, he published, under the title "Marxmanship in Dallas," the most elaborate version yet of the diehard "plot" theory of the Kennedy assassination. The Communists executed the President, says Oliver, intending to blame ultrarightists and trigger "a domestic takeover...
...great-grandparents named their son Revilo Oliver to make a palindrome-a phrase that reads the same backward or forward. Oliver is his family's third consecutive Revilo...
Pierre and Cybele stand, hand in hand, by the lake. The camera moves backward and we see their reflections in the water. They move away, yet their backs come towards us. The camera inverts, the lake becomes the land. But to dissect the scene in this manner as we watch is to shatter the stuble imagery that Bourguignon invokes. If instead, we suspend our critical faculties--sit back and let ourselves be fooled again and again--we may enter into manifold perceptions of the world...
Carrot & Stick. The basis of Ruiz' campaign is "military civil action," a program for making friends among the campesinos. Army troops show backward peasants how to build schools, highways, health centers, wells and sewers. Government agencies contribute drugs and crop seeds. Alianza funds provide many items, from mobile dispensaries to bulldozers. Army officers help out in classrooms. On Sundays, military bands tootle in village squares. And throughout the country, thousands of posters ask campesinos to help the military track down bandits...
...sign another pact putting floors under most other fluctuating commodity prices. They also aim to pressure the Communist countries, which now take scarcely 5% of their exports, to buy more. And they want the industrial powers not only to lower their barriers against imports of manufactured goods from the backward nations, but also to give them preferential tariff treatment and to subsidize their state-planned programs for industrialization-without getting anything in return...