Word: hindsighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press for revealing the Pentagon papers, but added: "We wish they had started earlier." One defense applicable to both press and officialdom came from John Roche in the New Leader: "History is a very different thing when you are approaching it head-on rather than with 20-20 hindsight...
This blind spot enables Dumont to gloss over the real angonies of policy decisions. With the effective aid of hindsight he can confidently, even arrogantly, quantify any situation. As predictability is a solid test of analytic accuracy. Dumont could have better conveyed his self-confidence with some forecasts about Cuba's sugar production. Instead he wavers, refusing to commit himself in this controversial area...
When asked what he and the Democratic Party had done to end the war in the past, Bayh said, "Not enough. Hindsight is better than foresight, but nobody's hands are clean." Bayh traced responsibility for the war to the Senate's passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1965 when "we gave the President all the power he could need...
...rock's new solo poets is a natural extension. Often they are talented offshoots from famous groups, the most notable examples being all four Beatles. Characteristically, they make the new sound but leave explanations to musicologists and sociologists. Occasionally, however, one will fall prey to the seductions of historic hindsight. "The dream is over," John Lennon has lately observed. "I'm not just talking about the Beatles, I'm talking about the generation thing. It's over, and we gotta?I have personally gotta?get down to so-called reality...
...financial and emotional shock waves started by the Rolls-Royce Ltd. bankruptcy two weeks ago are continuing to build in intensity. Last week there was considerable hindsight analysis of just how the calamity had happened -and a string of man-bites-dog oddities. The Guardian bannered a warning to foreigners: BETTER NOT BUY BRITISH. In Parliament, Socialists assailed the Conservative government for shabby treatment of a giant U.S. company, Lockheed Aircraft-a theme echoed on the placards of 1,000 Rolls workers who marched outside in one of the world's rare pro-American demonstrations. On the London Stock...