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...Orgy of Speculation." History's hindsight has absolved Hoover of much of the blame for the Great Depression. Indeed, he saw it coming long before he made, as one admiring biographer put it, the "most serious error of his amazing career"-that of running successfully for President...
Offered the opportunity of hindsight...
...habit of treating American history like a stage production further discredits the book's judgments. Foreshadowing well-known historical events is thin entertainment and thinner history; passing gradiose sentences from a century-high pedestal of hindsight is bad technique and bad historical explanation. Two Roads does both too often. For example, it was "not only unnecessary but foolish" for Douglas backers to allow a change of procedure at the 1860 Democratic convention. At the beginning of 1860, 32 million "extras" stood behind the "odd stellar assortment" of political players in the sectional drama. And no moderate argument had "one-tenth...
Your Oct. 11 fashion story is a gem of obfuscated hindsight. Formfit and Emilio Pucci fired the first unembarrassed shot in the war against the monobuttock with the introduction of the natural-back "Viva" panty girdle in 1957. We have not done any "feeling," crawling or walking toward "falsiefication" since that time...
Most Wall Streeters doubt that stocks are now riding for another fall. With the gift of 20/20 hindsight, they see that the 1961 market involved too much speculative buying by people who went deeply in debt to grab up stocks with more futuristic "glamour" than current earnings. This year's market leaders are blue-chip companies with strong earnings to back up their stock prices. Dow-Jones stocks are selling at 18.8 times per-share earnings, v. 22.9 times earnings in late 1961. The easily panicked amateur buyers, who deal in small lots, account for only 15.8% of trading...