Word: retrospect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, the Harvard baseball team was lucky Donnie Allard was called out at the plate, although Alex Nahigian didn't think so at the time...
...were aware that two previous Kings had died after horseback catastrophes, fretted about his wellbeing. Charles' attempts to find a suitable bride-or the attempts by the press to find one for him-resulted in many false starts, much bruised feeling and the occasional contretemps that seems, in retrospect, almost comic. At the time though, his quest was no laughing matter. Anthony Holden, one of his biographers, recalls that Charles became 'obsessed with the subject of marriage' and often noted, with a touch of sadness, that most of his friends were wed. We saw the feelings...
...resolve." So said Ronald Reagan in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last July. At that moment, half a world away, a Communist leader from El Salvador, Shafik Jorge Handal, was visiting Soviet-bloc countries in search of arms for Ms country's leftist guerrillas. In retrospect, the chain of events that made El Salvador the first focus of the new Administration's foreign policy seems inexorable...
Naturally, most molecular biologists now enjoying the new prosperity point out that collaboration between universities and industry is neither new nor dangerous. Physicists and chemists, they note, have long worked for private firms?not to mention the Pentagon?with little complaint from their colleagues except, in retrospect, over the atomic bomb. Says Boyer: "Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good...
...behind it the self-flagellation of the past 15 years. The U.S. is clearly eager for a more positive approach toward the troubles - and the opportunities - facing it around the world. Reagan won his presidency in part because he capitalized successfully on a national nostalgia for what seem, in retrospect, simpler, less troubled times. Americans should not be nostalgic for a lost, largely illusory and certainly irretrievable tune when the U.S. always got its way in the world. The more worthy and certainly more salutary objects of nostalgia are a mood of cautious optimism and a can-do faith...