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Perhaps most important, Castro gradually convinced the U.S. that Cuba was no longer "exporting revolution" to the hemisphere. When Senator George McGovern visited Cuba last May, Castro discussed the 1962 missile crisis with him. "I was furious when Khrushchev compromised," Castro said. "But I realize in retrospect that he reached the proper settlement with Kennedy. If my position had prevailed, there would have been a terrible war. I was wrong...
...answer becomes more subjective, a parlor game in which anyone is entitled to his own answer, so long as he remembers that the criterion is not just when his own fortunes or his own prospects were most favorable. In their own lives people are apt to choose, in retrospect, their young adult years. Perhaps this is why some people even fondly remember the Great Depression. They argue that material luxury is not the only test of wellbeing. Kenneth Clark, the black educator and psychologist, recalls that in the Depression, "for the first time there was equality in deprivation. Suffering...
...past period that people somehow survived seems in retrospect more manageable than today's open-ended uncertainties. Daniel J. Boorstin, the social historian, believes that "the contemporary time is always the best time to live. It is a mistake to say the best age is one without problems...
...making the case for today must insist that all the returns are nol yet in, and must assume that some trends will continue favorably and that some prophesied disastrous crisis can be averted. He must also assume that people will come to see their own struggles differently and in retrospect discover that their efforts were more successful and worthwhile than they realized. The case for today as the best of times for most people also rests on the ongoing progress of those minority millions who are gradually finding opportunities, and an acceptance denied their parents in offices, restaurants, universities...
...President became more worried as the Communists and extreme leftists gained influence within the M.F.A. and captured key posts in government bureaucracies. He suffered a major setback when Vasco Gonçalves (then only a colonel) replaced Premier Palma Carlos. Exercising what in retrospect was very poor judgment, Spinola made a desperate attempt to go over the heads of the M.F.A., calling for his country's maioria silenciosa (silent majority) to back him. A mammoth rally in support of the President, scheduled for late September, soon became a test of the moderates v. extremists. Under pressure from the M.F.A...