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...bargain, and he took pains at his 101st press conference to make clear that Dulles would stay on the job. The critics, he noted, talked only generally about blunders and lack of leadership, but made "no constructive proposals for what even should have been done with the benefit of hindsight." As for Dulles, he had been training for his job ever since his grandfather was Secretary of State, and "during those years he studied and acquired a wisdom and experience and knowledge that I think is possessed by no man-no other man in the world...
...present monstrous condition, has been a thorough moil of wrongheadedness on all sides. Egypt is breaching its agreement, the U.S. in insisting on doing nothing, and now Great Britain, France, and Israel in doing the wrong thing have all added their bits. But the passing of moral judgment in hindsight does not solve the problem...
Though President Hill lived to see only the beginning of the process, during the past ninety years Harvard has been transformed into a great modern university. This is all gain. If President Hill seems, by hindsight, seriously to have under-estimated the future demand for universities, he was clearly right nonetheless in his conviction that Harvard had the opportunity and the capacity to become an institution of this enlarged and more serviceable kind...
...President boasts of record National Incomes, but fails to indicate that National Income is not necessarily, per se, an indication of prosperity. Examine a year in the midst of the Eisenhower reign, 1954, a year for which there are statistics available and one which hindsight can interpret. In 1954, in the midst of Republican "prosperity," the country produced the all-time record national debt of 275 billion dollars, greater than any during the Second World War. Although the debt is necessary, an abnormally high debt behind great government spending is no base for the national economy. Frantic hacking...
Cruel Nouns. Introducing this first English translation of one of Herzen's most famous works, From the Other Shore, a brilliant journalistic-philosophical assessment of Europe after the 1848 revolutions, Riga-born Oxford Don Isaiah Berlin has underlined Herzen's teaching with some wry modern hindsight. As an observer of 19th century Europe, "only Marx and Tocqueville are comparable to him," says Berlin. "For Herzen," he says, the " 'collective nouns' capable of stirring strong emotion, like Nationality, or Democracy, or Equality, or Humanity, or Progress . . . [were] modern versions of ancient religions which demanded human sacrifice...