Word: onward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly 10,000 theaters in the U.S., 5,000 abroad. Its passing from the cinema scene in 1951 was widely lamented in the world's press. New York Times Critic Bosley Crowther found it "a shade ironic that, in these critical times, the film most watchful of the onward march of history should itself be compelled to march off." The popular series, he said (correctly), "bows to screen economics...
Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been a generally strong supporter of global U.S. foreign policy from the Marshall Plan onward. Yet last week he grumbled: "We made a terrible mistake getting involved in Viet Nam. I don't know just how we can get out now, but the time is about at hand when we must re-evaluate our position." He wants to re-evaluate other areas too. "It would be nothing less than tragedy for us to go and get involved in the Congo as we are in Viet...
...statues go, Lusaka's bronze monument to Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes is pretty run-of-the-horse. It weighs seven tons, stands only slightly larger than life size and, with somewhat oxidized symbolism, depicts Rhodes as a naked Apollo, riding fearlessly onward astride a magnificent prancing stallion. Donated to the city four years ago by the Rhodes-founded British South Africa Co., the statue soon became the object of all self-respecting Zambians' hatred...
That Sartre conjures up emotions for his youth tells us more than that he forgot what actually happened. It also suggests and extraordinary ambivalence to whatever emotions he actually experienced. This is a man who from childhood onward was so selfconscious that he firmly believed whatever he did was a pose. At the age of seven, "I led two lives, both of them untrue. Publicly I was an imposter: the famous grandson of the celebrated Charles Schweitzer; alone, I sank into imaginary moping. I corrected my false glory by false incognito. I had no trouble shifting from one role...
While her loyal sons are marching Onward to victory...