Word: presciently
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...hundred and fifty years ago Tocqueville warned the world that Americans were in danger of becoming too preoccupied with their personal affairs at the expense of commitment to civil and political causes. The Hart scandal presents a cruel twist on Tocqueville's prescient forecast. It seems now that the only political issues that concern us are those that relate to our personal lives. If it can't happen to us, if we don't see it on the daytime soaps, then it simply doesn't matter. We truly have reached a sad state of affairs when we adopt so narrow...
...quiet way, he carried a heavy load." That was how West Point's yearbook for the class of 1950 described Graduating Cadet Fidel V. ("Eddie") Ramos. It was a prescient judgment. Since he became Chief of Staff of the armed forces of the Philippines ten months ago, General Ramos has shouldered more than his share of the decision-making burden within President Corazon Aquino's fledgling government...
...valuable interviews. But her prying litany of misery displays few insights about her subject and little analysis of his unique combination of spontaneity and polish. The famous collection The Most of S.J. Perelman offers a series of works that are far more revealing -- and one title that is unfortunately prescient. "De Gustibus," it says, "Ain't What Dey Used...
Perhaps the most prescient thinking behinddecisions to cover or not to cover went on insidethe editorial offices of the Wall Street Journal.After publishing a caustic preview of the 350th inmid-August, the paper has no plans, barring anyunforeseen events newsworthy in and of themselves,to cover 350th festivities. "Our philosophy is togive our readers what they need to know," says thepaper's Boston bureau head Larry Ingrassia, "notmore than they need to know."CrimsonPeter H. SchwartzThe newsstand at Out of Town News is thebest indicator of what America thinks aboutHarvard's 350th...
...Reagan is our reassuring figurehead Franz Josef. The Wiener Werkstatte? The firm of Swid Powell, for whom the most prominent architects design tableware. Turn-of-the-century Viennese could feel cataclysm coming -- and in retrospect, the anonymous presence of young Hitler makes that last-waltz skittishness seem almost operatically prescient. Today the moment-by-moment potential for nuclear war supplies the apocalyptic undercurrent. In both eras, the ambitions of architects and artists seem rather diminished, their work purely picturesque or else merely solipsistic. Now as then, people dress beautifully, live elegantly, party madly, and wonder with a sly smile about...