Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vain, imperious, shy, a social throwback to the Old South, drowning like some failed Pleistocene fish in the swirling currents of democracy, Patrick Henry Bruce cannot have been an easy man to know. He refused to discuss his work, except with like-minded people; since he was sure that there was nobody like him in the art world, not one firsthand remark about his methods or aims has survived. In fits of depression, he destroyed part of his output; much of what he did not burn has been lost, and about half of his surviving late work was altered...
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 13--It was like a throwback to the early days of football as Harvard worked a single-wing shotgun offense that befuddled the modern-day Cornell defenders and sparked the Crimson to a 23-20 win here at Schoellkopf Field...
...Pope are without their complications even today. The Pope, adored in the streets and hailed as a media phenomenon, is scarcely the slicked-down, "with-it" Pontiff one might think the 20th century requires. Indeed, he has been called by some social critics within his own church a throwback to the frosty Pius XII. His pronouncements, shaped by the rigors of his Eastern Catholicism and his perception of a world in moral drift, have served to defend the eroding frontiers of faith and practice. He is both personable and tough-- a difficult combination to defeat, and, in these soft days...
...been playing football a long time, it's what I know. It's like brushing my teeth in the morning. I like contact sports--they're like a throwback to the Middle Ages when guys ran at each other with spears...
...fitted out with Tiffany lamps and polished hardwood floors to remind tourists of the riverboats of Mark Twain's day.* Its progress down the river was a water-borne version of the whistle-stop tour of fond memory (to politicians anyway). The President's manner was a throwback to the campaigner's style of 1976, as he worked some of the same territory-notably Iowa, where his earlier triumph in district caucuses gave the first hint that he would have to be taken seriously as a candidate...