Word: retrospect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years since his employment, China has gone through severe changes--the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution. Yao prefers not to talk of these phases, acknowledging that he "had some very unpleasant experiences," and aditting that "in retrospect, many of those policies were wrong." But he is concerned that people "will not understand the situation." Mao, he says, was a "man of integrity." "I'm not defending the Chairman's mistakes, he explains, "but China was too long behind the mainstream of the world. We were crying, wanting to change...
...retrospect, the decision to wage war on Israel with a surprise attack on Yom Kippur day, 1973, was a political masterstroke. All at once, Sadat restored Egyptian pride, broke the deadlock, and spurred Washington to alleviate tensions in the Middle East. If this was indeed the result Sadat had in mind, he could not have found a better way to achieve...
...retrospect, chastened USDA officials feel that they should have sold their proposals more carefully within the Administration before going public. Says Mary Jarratt, USDA Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services: "There was no way for the regulations not to be controversial. We are talking about a sensitive group, little children." With nearly one-third of the school lunch budget already slashed by Congress, those officials will have ample opportunity to devise a more appropriate, nutritional and workable plan...
Where does Snow-a technical administrator during World War II, recruiting scientists in Britain-fit into the total picture he has sketched? He apparently presumed himself the model man of "two cultures." But in retrospect, he seems an outsider to both -the novelist who was a scientist to other novelists, the scientist who was a novelist to other scientists...
...them and painted them with honesty. He neither flinched from it nor fudged it. And by the mere fact of painting only the essential-either because of an absence of "taste' or through an innate instinct for the essential-he achieved a kind of authenticity that in retrospect none of his more celebrated colleagues could rival...