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What does the controversy look like today with the benefit of hindsight? Certainly LSD did not bring about heaven on earth or create especially enlightened beings as its advocates contended it would, nor did it destroy the mind or create addiction as its opponents feared. So was the controversy a tempest in a teapot or does it have a wider significance? Leary and Alpert are back at Harvard to give their perspective on what it has all meant. I was involved in the controversy throughout because I had encouraged bringing both of them to Harvard (before they got involved with...
With the wisdom of hindsight, particularly now that the deadline for deployment is near, the alliance's decision in 1979 to pursue simultaneously disarmament and rearmament looks too clever by half. The leverage of the U.S. in the talks would always depend on the credibility of a threat that could be carried out only with the continued support of perishable governments and volatile public opinion in the five West European countries where the new missiles were supposed to be based...
...series of stupid accidents; that the ideas and impressions of the travelers jouncing along in the King's wake are blinkered by their subjectivity and their failure to account for history's indifference to the logical linking of events, which can be imposed by hindsight. Only Barrault's marvelously ironic Restif, curious as a cat and just as amoral, has things right. He has a taste for human folly, and he senses there is a whopper in the making up the road. Scola's imagery has a maturity that matches the script's subtlety...
...events, Victor ("Pug") Henry, a commander (later captain) in the U.S. Navy. Sent to Berlin as the American naval attache in the spring of 1939, Henry, played by Robert Mitchum, meets all the top Nazi leaders. Through his prescience, with just a little help from the author's hindsight, Henry alone anticipates the signing of the Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact, which enabled the Germans to launch the war. That prediction brings him to the attention of President Roosevelt, who thenceforth makes him his unofficial confidant and emissary. As F.D.R.'s man on the spot, he meets Churchill, Mussolini...
While détente may have been oversold in its heyday, in hindsight it looks undervalued, especially when compared with the naiveté and vacillations of Jimmy Carter or with the worldwide anti-Soviet "crusade" proclaimed by Ronald Reagan last summer. In an interview with TIME in New York City last week, Nixon made clear that he thinks it is time for the Reagan Administration to change both the tone and substance of its dealings with Moscow...