Word: backwardation
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...decided that the status quo is not so bad after all. The currently favorite illustration of Khrushchev's proposals: Two men are arguing. One is standing on the edge of a cliff. Says the first: "We'll compromise. Let's both take one step backward...
...when Central America found itself independent of Spain as a by-product of the Mexican Revolution, the region's liberators tried to turn it into a single nation. Instead, the United States of Central America quickly split into backwater statelets. The backwaters are still backward, but new currents are flowing in them. Since World War II, peasants and Indians have learned that hunger and disease need not be normal, that poverty and ignorance are not man's natural lot. In every presidential palace in Central America, new or remodeled Presidents show themselves aware of the pressure...
...every area of her life, the M.W. is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. This has been so since the days of Moses, when God smote Miriam for murmuring. If she's retiring, she's "backward"; if she's a leader, she's got her "nose in everything." If she is devoted to her family, she's ''making idols of her children"; if she's immersed in church work, she's "sacrificing her children...
...Somaliland as of July 1 so that it can unite with Somalia, the Italian-administered U.N. trusteeship territory which will achieve independence or the same date. Inhabited chiefly by goats and sheep, and with no major mineral resources, Somaliland is economically almost worthless and politically one of the most backward of all British territories. Local self-government was not attempted before 1953; in its first voting last year for 13 elective seats, authorities in one district could not find any tribesman willing to become a candidate. But to hold on to the colony promised more trouble than it was worth...
Dramatically, the end of the film is false, but statistically it is true; rape and murder are commonplace in South Africa's black ghettos. Indeed, Director Rogosin's reading of the facts is conservative. He is scrupulously fair to the whites, and the camera leans over backward to avoid some of the more unpleasant aspects of life in the Johannesburg slums: the open sewers and the unchecked disease. But Rogosin shows enough squalor to stun the average comfortable North American, and to prove beyond rebuttal one of his main points: that under the Nationalist oppression, black...