Word: retrospect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relates to the body of Resnais' work, and that Resnais himself prefers it to his features. Part of the audience was overwhelmed, the rest outraged: how dare one show such a film 17 years after the end of the war? Isn't it time everything was forgotten? Suddenly, in retrospect, Resnais' work takes on its full meaning...
...complete agreement on Tony's raise. At the meeting-attended by no more than 400 of the local's 14,000 members-40 Teamsters were against Tony in a stand-up vote. One challenged him to submit the raise to a secret ballot of all members. In retrospect, Tony himself seemed to be having second thoughts about whether he should take the raise. His position is already precarious with many of his men. He managed to win re-election as president by only a narrow margin last December, though even a narrow win was obviously enough to give...
Actually, one can cavil only in retrospect at de los Angeles' choice of music, for even an old concert-favorite like Scarlatti's Le Violette pleases us anew when clothed in such velvety beauty of sound as the Spanish soprano produced last Wednesday. Still more noteworthy--because less expected--was the increased command which de los Angeles seems recently to have developed over the realm of German lieder. Her exuberant performance of Schubert's Mein! made me forget for a moment that the songs from Die Schone Mullerin and hardly suited to a woman's voice and manner...
Wales in the 19th century was barren, poor, diseased and hagridden with superstition. It was, in short, picturesque but a tough place for Welshmen. Seen in retrospect by Welsh Novelist Jones, it remains determinedly picturesque but a hazardous place for novelists...
TIME'S choice of a Man of the Year seems, in retrospect, an obvious extension of our practice of singling out a man each week to put on our cover. But not until TIME was nearly five years old did it occur to the editors to proclaim a hero it described as "the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt" as Man of the Year. In those vividly irreverent days, TIME, in the midst of much praise, noted Charles A. Lindbergh's large feet, and ruefully recorded: "Eleanor Glyn avers he lacks...