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...Looking Backward...
Romance and Propaganda. This is the opening situation of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, an engaging and still highly readable novel which was also one of the most influential books in U.S. history. Published in 1888, it sold slowly for a year, then suddenly caught on and shortly sold over a million copies. Looking Backward seemed only a sugar-coated romance ; actually, it was propaganda for a Socialist Utopia. Among those who have acknowledged its influence on their thinking have been Mark Twain, William Dean Ho wells, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, William...
...Science teachers may be said to contribute the greatest proportion of backward-looking, anti-intellectual, mechanic-minded members of the faculty...
SEEMS TO BE SPEEDING BACKWARD...
...Elba that Napoleon was first exiled. From Elba he dashed back to restore Europe to its traditional turmoil during the Hundred Days. As A.M.G. authorities (British and U.S.) took over the rocky little island last week, the French might well ponder upon the famed palindrome attributed to Napoleon. Read backward or forward, it led to the same historic conclusion: "Able was I ere I saw Elba...