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After long and heated discussions, the President also won reluctant approval from his Cabinet for some new press curbs, which some leftists criticized, a bit unfairly, as a throwback to the bad old days of the Caetano regime. The press law bans "ideological aggression against the program of the Armed Forces Movement," like inciting soldiers to desert or workers to walk off their jobs. Violating editors are subject to fines of up to 500,000 escudos ($20,000) and a six-month ban on publication of their papers...
...latest innovation is the John Marshall Fundamental School, which was opened last fall at the direction of a newly elected school board, dominated 4 to 1 by conservatives. A deliberate throwback to the past, John Marshall offers its 1,100 pupils a no-nonsense curriculum grounded in the three Rs. The school runs through the eighth grade, and even in kindergarten the emphasis is on reading. Principal Mike Kellner also stresses patriotism: each morning, as the flag is raised, student trumpeters sound the call to the colors through the school's loudspeaker system...
STEVE'S AMERICA is one of iceboxes and small shacks, and Steve is a throwback to the days of direct producer-consumer relations. He is a craftsman; for Steve, clam digging is an art, clam selling is a living...
...view of Tillich's libido appears in another book to be published this month, Paulus (Harper & Row; $5.95). Written by his former student, Rollo May, it suggests that Tillich's pursuit of women was more sensual than sexual. To May, Tillich was in the medieval mold, a throwback to the age of chivalry, an incurable romantic who could scarcely write a book-even his best theology -without at least inwardly dedicating it to some lady fair. He was Teutonically serious about sex; the erotic pretensions of classic pornography attracted him, but he abhorred dirty jokes...
...many ways, Thomas McGuane is a throwback. Though he is just 33, his outlook comes from a time before black humor, the roman nouveau, and the new journalism, when writers and readers believed that fiction was the ideal way to capture the essence of experience. In some respects, McGuane is a literary descendant of Hemingway. Both men are rigorous stylists; for both, reality emerges from careful, linear detail. It has been some time since a writer has acknowledged, as McGuane does, having been influenced by anything of Hemingway's except Death in the Afternoon. Possibly a change of fashion...