Word: hindsight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painfully aware of the political delivery gap. Those other men running for Carter's job should read it. Within the promise book is virtually every goal and at least the germ of almost every idea that the challengers are now so ardently proclaiming on the campaign trail. In hindsight's cruel light, we see that the promise book is a gaudy shell wrapped around a void. There is hardly a word about implementing these dreams. So it is in this campaign. The candidates describe how lovely life will be in their fairylands, but they rarely talk about...
...hindsight, the glories of kings are apt to depend on the available talent. All the last Shah of Iran could rake up by way of a court artist was Andy Warhol. Four hundred years before, his predecessors were more fortunate. The first three-quarters of the 16th century in the courts of Persia formed one of the supreme periods in the history of art: a Middle Eastern equivalent, perhaps, of Florence between 1450 and 1500, or 16th century Venice, or Paris between 1880 and 1930. It was mainly in Tabriz, the capital of the Safavid dynasty, under the patronage...