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...physically. As he listened wanly to Stennis make his report on the Senate floor, Dodd looked much older than his 59 years. Later, talking to reporters, he insisted that he would run again and let the people judge him: "My conscience is clear. My conduct is being judged by hindsight...
...should reporters have published Kennedy's plan to intercept Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba. Presumably in the first instance they might have saved the U.S. from one of its most embarrassing international incidents, while in the second case, they did well to keep silent. But this is all hindsight. We feel that reporters should have exposed the Bay of Pigs because it was a mistake, and that they should have remained silent about the Cuban blockade because it was successful. The point is that there are no clear guidelines which can be laid down, and that reporters must individually...
...Kiss Me, Stupid--the man's last three pictures--were characterized not so much by cynicism as by excess. In all things. Kiss Me, Stupid, unquestionably Wilder's worst, was so overplayed, overwritten and overdirected that it seemed fair to call it his Armageddon. But with the benefit of hindsight, one can see that beneath the roughage Wilder has been brewing a new style of comedy. And the brew has come to boil with The Fortune Cookie...
...when this secret man first conceived the design by which his father's little hunting lodge was to become the hub of the universe." Mitford's tentative guess is the simple explanation that Louis liked the country; he lived on horseback and was a great shot. The hindsight of history alleges that he was afraid of the Parisians, but this was not quite so ("Fear was left out of his nature...
Sick or Secluded? With Monday morning hindsight, China-watchers now date the beginnings of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution back to 1963, when a worried Mao instituted his "Socialist Education Movement" in an attempt to get the Chinese psychology back on the revolutionary tracks. Somewhere along the line, possibly at the secret Central Committee plenum of September 1965, he decided stronger doses of Mao-think were needed...