Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that moment could not last forever in a land whose central idea from the first Pilgrim landfall onward has been physical and spiritual renewal, the fresh start, the future in which literally anything is possible. Often in their history Americans have returned to that theme of vigorous dawn departures-physically to the frontier, spiritually in the Great Awakening, socially through the immense renovation of the New Deal...
...between left and right in France up to Courbet's death in 1877 would have turned out very much the same whether he had painted or not. For art does not act directly on politics in the way that the engagé wing of the avantgarde, from Courbet onward, expected it to do. All it can do is provide examples of radical feeling and models of dissent, unless it simply wishes to confirm the status...
...mainly it is Newman, now 56, who gives Fort Apache its modest distinction. From Somebody Up There Likes Me onward, there has been a main line to his best performances, a certain inarticulate striving toward decency on the part of men who may not be the smartest guys in the world, but who have discovered their better natures through the play of instincts. This film marks a return to that line...
...fact is that U.S. officials have little to smile about when they look at the burgeoning Soviet space program. The faltering U.S. effort has been plagued by repeated delays of the space shuttle (now scheduled for launch no earlier than next March), while the Soviets have been forging steadily onward, setting the stage for permanent occupation of space...
Americans saw their lives as an upward march toward the light. Or, as Columbia University Historian Henry Graff says, "they pictured America riding a train going up a mountain. It went round and round, but always onward and upward. The only interruptions were occasional tunnels-wars and depressions. It would suddenly go dark and then the light would stream in again...