Word: recoiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anouilh early looked upon the modern world and found it bad. In his recoil, he stepped back to 1910, the year of his birth. His reading had caused him to believe that the world had held out a promise to him then that it had long since slapped out of his hands. Many of his plays, as a result, are set around 1910, and still more have an Edwardian flavor even if they are contemporary. His plays often express nostalgia for hope and optimism in the spirit of a young girl (as in The Rehearsal), countering it with examples...
...made 85-mm. cannon, a batch of 37-mm. antiaircraft guns and two fresh battalions rolled along twisting roads into the mountain town of Tizi-Ouzou, on the edge of rebel-held territory. Encamped along the high ridges were the guerrillas. They were equipped with heavy machine guns and recoil less cannon, which they cleaned constantly when they were not listening to their transistor radios or posing for Western news photographers.* Indian-style signal fires on the mountain spread news of the government troops' approach. But each side was unwilling to be the one to touch off a civil...
...named after Louis (roughly 1648-1715) was perhaps more profoundly embodied in the frail frame of another Frenchman, Blaise Pascal. Pascal began as a youthful exponent of reason and science-most notably in his studies of atmospheric pressure and the calculus of probabilities-only to recoil in middle life from everything science and reason had apparently achieved. In his last testament, the famous Thoughts on Religion, he emerged as an eloquent defender of religious belief. Science, he declared, was mere presumption, and man could grope his way towards the truth only by renouncing the intellect and "placing his faith...
Though I approve of your choice of President Kennedy as Man of the Year, his portrait on the cover makes me recoil and shout like Macbeth upon seeing the ghost of Banquo...
...Made'em recoil as they would from a goad...