Word: throwbacks
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...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...
...England's southbound ice, fish, lumber and granite, returning with molasses and coal. But not for 40 years has such a commercial vessel been built, and Ackerman intends to turn a profit with this one. "It better," he proclaims, "and it will." Like his vessel, Ackerman is a throwback. A fiercely independent Yankee out of Newmarket, N.H., with skilled hands and shoulders like a fullback's, he doesn't give a damn for anyone who doesn't give a damn...
...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...
...sepia-tinted photograph in a color-television age, a throwback to the time when ballplayers wore baggy wool flannel uniforms and played cards on lonesome train rides through the night. His square shape and scowling countenance served him poorly off the field. He could deliver the winning hit but not the winsome quote, and thus suffered in the game of personality hype, the game that, sadly, often seems to count most...