Word: hindsighted
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Smith is less successful when he contemplates the meaning of it all. "We may be on the ground floor of the primary anxiety of the rest of history," says one character, benefiting from the hindsight of fiction. Records of the actual event contain revealing statements that defy the imagination. Said a general to the scientist who had called the century's most resonant countdown: "What a wonderful thing that you could count backward at a time like this...
...Investigation committees" like this one have become a permanent landmark in American political hindsight. When things get out of control, we need a scientific study to set the record straight. But "fact finding" is somewhat of a delusion. No matter what you call it, such a committee--with its inevitable crossection of experts and laymen--looks like a jury...
Also consider the post trial comments of Walter V. Robinson, the article's author. "We were under a deadline to produce a story," Robinson said. "With 20-20 hindsight, perhaps I would have taken a little more time writing the article...
...survivor of the bombing and fire that later engulfed the Move building, killing seven adults and four children and destroying or seriously damaging 60 surrounding houses. The letter warned that Move would "burn this . . . house down and burn you up with us" if the police attacked. Critics armed with hindsight said the note should have tipped city officials that a bomb could spark an inferno...
...first and second expeditions. As it happens, Flatters is cut down by the Tuareg four pages later. Porch knew it would happen the reader whew it would happen-the chapter is, duh, called "The Massacre" -but how could Flatters have known it without Porch's convenient historical hindsight? Still Porch's wry and occasionally snide writing makes for good reading and that' more important than scholarly reserve in pop history...