Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I was first asked to write a man's-eye piece about woman's shoes, I was flabbergasted. I mean, after all, there aren't many fellows who can tell a wedgie from a splodgie, and I've always been particularly backward in this line myself...
Teaching the backward peoples...
Weil, who once tried to hire Chicago's Philosopher Mortimer Adler (TIME, March 17) as a Vice President in Charge of Thinking, thought that "retailing is a backward and disorganized industry." He would also admit that Macy's had lost ground, was not growing in Manhattan as it had done in the '20s. He prophesied: "It will do so again in the '50s. If it doesn't, I will have been a failure...
...Mauriac, "is comforting. It rests the mind and relaxes the nerves." And Paula Cernes, a middle-class girl married to a decayed baron, has been making hate for 13 years. She lives in a tangle of venom with her husband's family, and despises her son Guillaume, a backward child, because he is so much like his father. To spite them all, Paula sends the boy to take lessons from the local schoolteacher, an open Communist. The schoolteacher brings the boy out a little, and Guillaume is ecstatically happy; never before has he been treated so considerately...
Said Ridgway's headquarters: "So the cycle continues. Every step forward will be followed by a step backward until Moscow is convinced that the final decision for Korea must be made without delay." This statement, designed to put all the onus on Moscow, unintentionally revealed the state of mind that now prevails in Tokyo and in Washington: the U.S. no longer has the initiative. Peace, stalemate or war-and how much or how little of either-is Moscow's choice, to be made at Moscow's convenience...