Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...implausible linkage of Jimmy Carter to lechery stemmed from some afterthought views on sexual mores that the candidate expressed in a wide-ranging interview that will appear in the November Playboy. The result of five hours of interviews given over a three-month period to Writer Robert Scheer, the Playboy article quotes Carter on such substantive topics as U.S. intervention in foreign countries, multinational corporations and the Mayaguez incident. But none of these created a stir...
According to McCurdy's calculations, "the thing balances up all the way down the line." McCurdy said Thursday that for Harvard to win the meet, "Somewhere along the line, somebody's going to have to do something he hasn't done yet." Almost as an afterthought, he added, "We think...
That analysis, however, came as an afterthought to a session that a number of people, who addressed each other as "comrade," had spent wrangling over the politics of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. There was an urgency to the rhetoric; the angriest and least tolerant speeches got the most applause, and despite the appeal by moderator Ernest Wamba, lecturer on African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis, for people to "try hard to analyze rather than recite," those who suggested that the MPLA was being manipulated by the Soviet Union were abused and ignored...
...week in Houston, it had never been staged in the U.S. Like almost all Baroque music, it fell into neglect with the rise of the classical era in the late 18th century. During the 19th century, romanticism buried it completely. That Rinaldo has only now come along as an afterthought of the post-World War II Baroque revival testifies to two things: the unadventurousness of the average opera company and the scarcity of the special type of virtuoso singer required for the title role...
...Britain. In the U.S. most industrial unions have acted with restraint during the recession. But last week one big American city after another faced walkouts by workers who were making difficult demands in a time of shrinking resources. The "English sickness"−the affliction that makes work almost an afterthought amid the ceaseless shop-floor broil of whispered conferences, noisy confrontations and tense negotiations−is most virulent in its native land. But the rest of the industrialized world knows that it has no guarantee of immunity against what is happening in Britain...