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...Cartoonist Walt Kelly sure to needle them in his comic strip, Pogo. He is off to a fast start this year. During the New Hampshire primary campaign, he sketched Romney, Rockefeller and Nixon as windup dolls running off haphazardly in all directions-and in the case of Romney, backward. Last week it was Lyndon Johnson's turn in the guise of a booted, bulbous-nosed Texas longhorn that horns in on a picture-taking session. "You gittin' my good side, oF buddy?" he inquires of the photographer. "Which side's that?" retorts an onlooker...
...paying for its profligacy is a partial loss of economic sovereignty to one of the most effective international organizations in history. Schweitzer considers it a badge of honor to have been denounced lately in Parliament. That, he says, is the kind of brickbat he usually wins only from backward countries...
...musically, instead of pushing farther out into the realms that the Beatles charted in such songs as Strawberry Fields Forever and A Day in the Life, the record glances backward to the simple, hard-driving style they left behind in Liverpool. There are no electronic rumbles, no shifting keys or tempos-just a bluesy melodic line plunging exuberantly over an instrumental backing that is straight out of an old-fashioned record...
...angry mood of black ghettos also makes it increasingly difficult for white academics to research ghetto problems. This may strike white professionals as backward and unreasonable, but it is a predictable response to decades of fruitless probings, and promises by whites, and also to painful contact with condescending school and welfare "experts." Black communities are demanding that black faces present the questionnaires...
...first of the "five great principles," McCarthy says "that America must not shrink from war when liberty is at stake; but that America must not conduct war against the poor, the backward, and the primitive...