Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...strong infusion of private investment, Central America's five nations are enjoying unprecedented economic prosperity (TIME, Jan. 1). Politically, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua seem headed toward more or less representative governments, and Costa Rica has become a model constitutional republic. But there is one unfortunate throwback to the old era of machine-gun politics when O. Henry described Central America as a collection of "little opéra bouffe nations that play at government and intrigue...
...also something more than the mere sum of his praise and criticism. He is a throwback to the classic American individualist, a mold which produced Thomas Edison and Thoreau-men with the fresh eye that cannot be done. What Fuller sees excites him with the vision of man's potentialities, and he has made it his mission to help man to realize them. Says he: "Man knows so much and does so little." Last week this crackpot stepped off the plane in London, spouting words the minute his feet touched ground, and headed for a dinner in his honor...