Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been encouraged to speak up, differ and even criticize in the brief post-Stalin honeymoon. Saburov brusquely called them back to heel: "Our Soviet literature is called upon to carry into the masses the ideas of Communism, to show what is advanced and progressive, and to castigate what is backward...
...TIME weighed the feelings of the "backward and unambitious" nine-tenths of South Africa's population, who never got the chance to vote for Malan...
...this biased and unjustified attitude towards a man and a political party striving to preserve "white" civilization on a dark continent is beyond comprehension . . . The role of the white man in South Africa is that of a Christian guardian to the black people, who are, on the whole, a backward and unambitious race...
...indeed, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are much less actors than roles. Now, once again, they manifest their uniqueness. She provides a heraldic squeal or purr; he drops to a sudden flawless guttural pianissimo; each not merely throws away a line, but throws it, with a double backward flip, over an exiting left shoulder...
Fragile Fox bangs through three acts, tossing at the audience a large variety of theatrical explosives. Blood is shed, broken bones are set, orders are defied, prisoners are shot, characters swear and curse, reel forward and roll backward. The characters themselves range from the comic to the psychopathic, the believable to the incredible; the incidents sometimes recall the war, rather oftener recall other war plays...