Word: hindsight
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...word recession is rarely mentioned any more, except by those economists who offer a hindsight opinion that the economic standstill may actually have been a "quasi-recession"-which would certainly make it the mildest on record. Now discussion centers on just how far the advance will go. Last week the President's Council of Economic Advisers reported that the gross national product rose to a record annual rate of $572 billion in the first quarter, $2 billion more than the Administration had predicted. Chase Manhattan Bank Vice President William F. Butler figures that G.N.P. will reach $582 billion...
...clever conceit to do a kind of drawing-room philosopher's Ages of Man: Old Sam (Ustinov) at 80 is confronted with himself at 60, 40, 20, and even as a baby. The four grown Sams share the stage together, and with all the amusing ironies of hindsight and foreknowledge relive key episodes in their communal life. Sam at 20 (John Horton) is an ardent lyric poet and marathon runner, at 40 (Donald Davis) a disgruntled fictional crafts man of obscure worst-sellers, at 60 (Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still...
...America Conference (1949 record: 1 win, 11 losses), put in ten years with the San Francisco 49ers. Everyone agreed that he could pass, but he was no twinkle toes as a runner, and when the 49ers shifted to a ground game last year, he was traded to the Giants. "Hindsight," says San Francisco Coach Red Hickey mournfully, "is always clearer than foresight." Against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the season's second game. Tittle got the kind of protection a passer needs, completed ten of twelve passes for a 17-14 victory that started the Giants on the road...
...same in the 88th. Such is the unpredictability of voters that elections often bring startling surprises, with some incumbents who had seemed safe losing after all, and some who had seemed to be in danger actually winning by huge margins. But as of last week, without benefit of hindsight, the line-up looked like this...
When Painter Arshile Gorky died in 1948, the New York Times gave the story a mere 15 lines-and perhaps it would not have run even that much had it not believed, mistakenly, that the artist was "a first cousin of Maxim Gorky, the writer." Hindsight proves that the press and public sadly wronged Arshile Gorky. As two new shows in Manhattan demonstrate, he was one of the significant U.S. painters of this century...