Word: hindsight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their punishment. Now as reconciled to man as he has all along been to nature, Audubon goes on to his own fulfillment, to his "glory"-a favorite Warren word. Truly "Westward and fabulous," the painter's vision is shadowed only by the poet's darkly romantic hindsight on what was to follow: the Civil War and that other bugaboo of the Southern soul, industrialization...
...library of 1850 helps one to understand that epoch in its own terms, as a past present facing an unknown future, rather than through hindsight, as past with known future. Where hindsight finds foolishness, empathy will enable the student to learn how hard it was to avoid foolishness...
...more money around than the increased output of goods warranted. Naturally, prices went up faster than be fore. So far this year, the board has not increased the money supply at all, but its mistake of 1968 set back the campaign against inflation by about six months. With 20/20 hindsight, Arthur Okun, who was President Johnson's chief economist, concedes that "it has just been too easy to raise prices and wages. Nobody was scared of losing markets or jobs. Management knew that competitors would follow them rather than fight them. The villain of the piece was just...
...question remains whether the right kind of pressure was presented by the battle for Hamburger Hill: a costly fight for a piece of real estate that was to be abandoned before the blood had hardly dried on it. There are U.S. officers who will privately admit that, given hindsight, Ap Bia should have been handled differently. Perhaps, they say, the 101st moved up too close before ascertaining how many Communists were dug in atop the mountain. Perhaps the peak should have been more thoroughly blasted by air and artillery bombardment before the soldiers assaulted it. But, says one officer...
...with the benefit of hindsight and for the benefit of other university presidents who may be in the same position as you were, do you really think that was the best way of handling the situation...