Most of "The Known World," which takes its title with irony from a 300-year-old map and reflects the backwardness of such a document, is set on Henry's plantation.
The New Yorker, September 8 , 1980P. 31 All passeist, immobile, fixed-launcher guided-missile systems present such a monstrous spectacle of pathetic backwardness and obsolescence that our MX Missilist eyes turn away with profoundest disgust and contempt!
By Ellis Weiner The New Yorker, September 8 , 1980 P. 31All passeist, immobile, fixed-launcher guided-missile systems present such a monstrous spectacle of pathetic backwardness and obsolescence that our MX Missilist eyes turn away with profoundest disgust and contempt!
"In Asia they tell you in a positive sense what you are allowed to do instead of telling you what you can't do".Before the financial crisis such restrictions were seen as signs of backwardness.
In his passionate dissent in Palmer, Justice Douglas compared swimming pool access and segregation to schools, arguing that maintaining such systems "would dedicate the State to backwardness, ignorance and existence in a new Dark Age".
Emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and growing much faster than the U.S. If America is going to remain on top, we have to compete in an increasingly tough environment.
Aren't they symbols of corruption and backwardness and tyranny?"The loud airing of such talk has had a cathartic effect not just on Arab audiences, but on the profession of journalism.
The Mancunians I met seemed thrilled that someone was coming to their city in the first place — like most really great places, it's entirely underrated, with major tourist spots such as London all too happy to deride the perceived backwardness of the city and its people.
Seeing the results of such unbounded capitalism in America, I would opt for France's supposed backwardness any time.
