Word: throwbacks
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...flagrant violation of Pennsylvania sovereignty," charged Governor William Scranton. "A throwback to the days of the bounty hunters," cried Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Richard S. Schweiker. What caused all the outrage last week was the case of a slim, 19-year-old Negro boy who had been seized at his home in a Philadelphia suburb by two Alabama bondsmen and carted off to Mobile...
...found it unobjectionable; a TIME correspondent polled 19 of them, found 15 in favor. With Latin diplomats, however, private preference and public position are often poles apart. Belatedly, the White House realized that many of the same Latins who privately approved the resolution would publicly damn it as a throwback to Yankee big-stick diplomacy...
...highly specific knowledge. A case in point u Viet Nam. The current swirl of protest may be useful in encouraging the makers of U.S. policy to sharpen and define their views, but it is also heavily uninformed, riddled with emotional cliches and misunderstandings of both Asia and Communism-a throwback to the oversimplicities of the 1930s. Many intellectuals pounced on Viet Nam almost with relief, because it once again gave them an easy target and a chance to feel a little martyred...
...reputation as a girl worth singing about, Actress Fonda does every preposterous thing demanded of her with a giddy sincerity that is at once beguiling, poignant and hilarious. Wearing widow's weeds over her six-guns, she romps through one of the zaniest train robberies ever filmed, a throwback to Pearl White's perilous heyday. Putting the final touches on a virginal white frock to wear at her own hanging, she somehow suggests that Alice in Wonderland has fallen among blackguards and rather enjoys it. Happily, Cat Ballon makes the enjoyment epidemic...
...were slow, they brought the world's goods and services to the isolated door. And in the new days, when stores are jammed and traffic clogs the highways, the peddlers are back again, dazzling the harried housewife with their lines of cosmetics, underclothes, frozen foods, lending libraries. Latest throwback is the itinerant barber...