Word: throwbacks
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...terms of space, Concorde seems like a throwback to the cramped piston age. "Mind your head," warned the steward as I boarded and made my way to my seat in the long cigar-tube fuselage. If your seat is near one of the tiny windows, you notice the sharp curvature of the fuselage. The reading light is close to your head. In supersonic flight, the windows warm up and the cabin tends to get a bit stuffy...
...dedicated and often fanatical men who led the Chinese Communist Party, Chou was unique. Mao, though a poet and an intellectual, was also a soldier who had much in common with the rough, parochial peasant comrades who forged the revolution. By contrast, Chou was silkenly urbane, almost a throwback to the old Mandarin bureaucrats of imperial China. His courtly manners and experience in the ways of the world made him, outside China, a symbol of Oriental patience and guile. U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger was not the only Western diplomat who, after a treasured cup of tea with Chou...
...United States, his Secretary of State, and his Secretary of Defense have told the American people that we must not "lose" Cambodia; that if we do, the rest of Southeast Asia will "fall"; and that our allies will all panic if we cut off the aid. In yet another throwback to the 1960s, a group of six U.S. Representatives recently flew to Vietnam and Cambodia to check on our progress...
...view of life at The New Yorker! Gill does not dwell on this paradox, but it is not hard to explain. Ross, Shawn and the rest have successfully set up as taste makers over a 50-year period when cultural presumptions have changed horrendously. The New Yorker remains a throwback to Matthew Arnold's Victorian faith in a secular religion of truth and beauty. Eustace Tilley, the magazine's monocled symbol, is clearly an Arnold disciple turned dandy. To be impeccable, graceful and hard-hitting all at the same time is demanding work. So is hanging...
Garrulous and profane, an almost compulsive talker, Strauss is a throwback to the era of the smoke-filled rooms. At a time when the far-out liberals and the deep-dyed conservatives threaten to pull the Democrats apart, Strauss is the great compromiser who is dedicated to strengthening the center, which he defines as the "progressive middle" of the party. The job is ticklish, but Strauss points out: "A poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns early how to survive...