Word: retrospect
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...cynical, today's younger generation began driving the traditional musical toward extinction more than two decades ago. The genre's zenith came, not coincidentally, at the last moment of baby boomers' cultural powerlessness, during the 1950s, when a big Hollywood musical appeared every few months. It's incredible, in retrospect, that An American in Paris, Royal Wedding, Show Boat, Singin' in the Rain, April in Paris, Calamity Jane, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kismet, Oklahoma!, Brigadoon, Guys and Dolls, High Society, Funny Face and The King and I all appeared in movie theaters in a single...
...retrospect, maybe we should have spelled itout in more detail how the process is going towork," she said. "It just wasn't well described in[Green's] letter...
...retrospect, it's difficult to reconcile these two courses in the same department. If the myths in Rudenstine's letter were dispelled by my fall course, they reached new heights in Marius' class. As I eventually discovered, good, effective instruction can be found in the department. That I had to spend an extra semester and one of my treasured electives to find it, though, is a comment on the structure of Expository Writing at Harvard. There are some serious difficulties not with the quality of specific teachers, but with the philosophy and structure of the program itself...
...retrospect, it is not too surprising that this former provost of Princeton announced in October 1991 that he was seeking a provost, an office which had been dormant since before Rudenstine himself was in college...
Littleboy, who was called at home and came directly over to the labs, said the fire department opened the street up again at about 9 a.m. after determining that there was no danger from the spill. "In retrospect, it was overkill, but they're super people," he said...