Word: onwardness
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...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...
...Onward, ever onward, sweeps technology toward a bright electronic world. And backward, ever backward, points the whimsical finger of fashion. Latest case in point: gas lamps...
While her loyal sons are marching Onward to victory...
...Onward he went, this time to wheel a helicopter up and out of view, and back again. A helicopter is a perverse and difficult craft; a pilot has to use both hands and feet, and even the pros consider them miserable things to handle. "This fellow did a masterly job," said FAA Supervisor Joe Princen. Said Gregory: "I am probably supposed to have been nervous, but I wasn...