Word: throwbacks
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...Hour of the Wolf, his next film, seemed a throwback, a last effort to exorcise personal demons in a traditional story film. But the subsequent Shame is a vision completely externalized. The film begins in darkness; an alarm clock rings, bedroom shades are thrown open, and until the portrayed artist and his wife finally set adrift in a sea of war dead, the audience is enveloped in a dream objectified by the directness of Bergman's artistry. One recognizes the degree of control the filmmaker has exercised because his film is so concentrated, so perfectly removed from the real world...
...some people such a picture of King is difficult to accept or even understand. But, as Williams explains, "King's color consciousness seems to have been a direct throwback to the social values of black Atlanta." In cities like Atlanta and Washington, where there is a sizable black middle class, color did, and to an extent continues to function as a criterion for acceptance into the upper realms of what E. Franklin Frazier, the black sociologist, termed "the society without substance." Cast after the mold of the white power and Puritan classes, the mores and attitudes of the middle class...
...Richard Nixon's Washington, John Connally is a throwback to the Lyndonesque. He chews the last bit of meat off his pork chops with both elbows on the table and sometimes speaks in the earthy parables of L.B.J.'s Pedernales folklore. Observing the shrewd, assertive style that Connally brought to Washington as Secretary of the Treasury, Alabama's Congressman George Andrews breathed a sigh of déjà vu: "You look very much like an arm twister. In fact, somebody said you look almost like his twin brother." Says Connally with an innocent smile...
Schoolchildren are now taught in Katherevousa, a once-obscure mixture of ancient and modern Greek, which many observers consider a linguistic throwback designed "to keep information and education away from the masses," as one anti-junta activist said...
...classes; instead of raging in the streets to protest national issues, they toil on committees studying campus problems. The abrasive cant of radicals is scarcely to be heard. Such square fads as booze, early Beatle records and card playing are making something of a comeback. It is not a throwback to the silent '50s. As the demonstrations against the Laos invasion by South Vietnam forces last week showed, the students have by no means shed their deep concerns about the war?or poverty and the environment. Yale President Kingman Brewster calls the new mood an "eerie tranquillity...