Word: presciently
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...SCOTT FITZGERALD HAD his prescient moments. In 1921 he wrote to Edmund Wilson, chiding his fellow Princetonian for excessive Anglophilia. "Culture follows money," Fitzgerald declared, predicting that New York City rather than London would soon become "the capital of culture." How right he was. Between the end of World War I and the Crash of 1929, the Big Apple (yes, they called it that even then) emerged as the world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature--practically everything, in fact, except politics. Then, as now, New York had the dubious honor of being the world...
Shakespeare, in his prescient wisdom, foresaw the discovery of the late twentieth century Harvard paradigm. What is Macbeth if not the tragic embodiment of acute paradigm dysfunction? He fell victim to a bunch of lunatics who shoved their own illusory paradigms up his paradigm vacuum. He had to be told what paradigms to adopt. His fatal paradigm encompassed the plausibility of entire forests moving by themselves. Since Macbeth was the classic tragic hero, he could be cleansed of his false paradigms only in death. We muse that, at the final moment of truth, he ascends to paradigm purification...
...Dartboard article was all too prescient. Cutting the interest subsidy on the Stafford loans would raise students' payments for their undergraduate education by up to 19.4 percent in total. The neediest students would be charged proportionately, and thus hurt the most. At the loan maximum of $17,125, students would have to squeeze out an additional $3,320 in payments...
Fortunately, he says, his prescient roommate had stowed their stuff just the day before...
...future leaders who ended up disgraced that cause concern; it is the leaders who were successes. TIME was prescient to identify Les Aspin in 1974 as someone who might go far. Back then he was simply a two-term Congressman with an interest in military affairs, yet he rose all the way to Secretary of Defense. How well did that turn out? Clinton, Rather, Biden, Senator Sam Nunn, columnist George Will, California Governor and possible Republican presidential nominee Pete Wilson, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Citibank CEO John Reed -- all were on the lists of potential leaders, and all could be said...