Word: hindsighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hansen's colleagues in Congress are embarrassed and even a little frightened at the thought of this untutored man careening through the world's tragedies under the protective banner of the House of Representatives. Speaker Thomas O'Neill called Hansen "out of bounds." Nor, in hindsight, did the Iranians feel kindly about the Hansen mission. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh summed it up: "I don't think that was of any good whatsoever...
...corner Commons seat once occupied by Winston Churchill during the '30s, Edward Heath strongly denied that there had been any "coverup" and insisted that Blunt's disclosures about other Soviet spies had provided "a great deal of valuable information." Callaghan agreed with Heath, but allowed, with hindsight, that "the advice at the time about Blunt being allowed to stay in a palace post was wrong." And Callaghan added the icy comment: "I am bound to say that I think there has been a tendency to treat Mr. Blunt with kid gloves. Would Mr. Blunt have had the same...
Should the Administration have anticipated Iran's violent reaction to admitting the Shah? With the clarity of hindsight, there is agreement among many experts on this point: a resounding yes. A good deal can be said in Carter's defense, however. Three times the Bazargan government assured the Administration that it could protect the embassy against attack. One of the assurances came after the Shah was admitted to the U.S. and the demonstrators started shouting in Tehran's streets. There was an encouraging precedent. Last February when anti-American protesters seized the embassy, Iran's government...
THESE ARE the memories Sullivan recounts, not with the detached hindsight of recent interviews, or with the purpose of a sportswriter trying to find the real reason why the Red Sox blew it this year, but with the eye of the media, and mostly, the eye of those who have followed the Red Sox, and come back for more...
...breaking his leg in a skiing accident," says Ungeheuer, "Galbraith regaled his students with an unsentimental view of human fallibility, reminding them that man's greed and short memory make monetary history eminently repeatable." Such lessons, notes Ungeheuer, "blessed us with that indispensable tool of economic journalism: magnificent hindsight." Last year, however, when reporting on the coming gold rush for TIME, Ungeheuer demonstrated the much rarer gift of economic foresight, predicting in January 1978 that gold would break the $200-an-ounce barrier later that year. Alas, says Ungeheuer, "I failed to back this premonition with...