Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have something to teach Mr. Reagan--not, to be sure, about getting ahead in the world, but perhaps aboutnot getting ahead? Is it possible that life is more fruitfully lived in the Indians' circular way (the turning of the earth) than in our accustomed linear fashion (onward and upward...
...which Reagan, a young schoolboy in Dixon, Illinois, remembers seeing his father drunk on the back door-step. The example is illustrative of his general approach; Dallek retrieves from this incident the basic Reagan ethic of self-reliance that Dallek asserts pervades Reagan's policies as president. Moving onward, Dallek tries to show a panoply of instances in which Reagan actions reflect deep-seated personal values. He wants to find the bases of Reagan's abstractionist thought. What explains Reagan's harsh anti-Soviet evangelism? Dallek asks, as an example. "Reagan's rhetoric and actions suggest that in some fundamental...
...anniversary of Malcolm X's death presents a chance to return to his speeches and ideas. The challenge Malcolm X offered was one of involvement in the struggle for change on a continuous basis. Rather than mourn his loss. Blacks must learn from his teachings and move onward. That would be the greatest form of remembrance...
...just this response that Biographer Scott Elledge, an English professor at Cornell, tries to deflect. The life of Author E.B. White, 84, Elledge keeps insisting, has been harder than it looks, from birth onward: "Elwyn was not a weakling or a sickly child, but he was not robust . . . his hay fever was so severe that his father took him (with the rest of the family) to Maine for the month of August in the hope of escaping the pollen that made him miserable." After enduring these hard knocks, this youngest of six children of well-to-do parents went...
...permitted all of the Gloria N. 's passengers to indulge. In fact, the point Federico Fellini wants to make in the liveliest, funniest and most assured movie he has directed in years is that the time for these absurdities is over. From Sarajevo onward, he is saying, the only follies grand enough to impose themselves on the world's consciousness will be political, and far more menacing than these little cultural lunacies...