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...25th Anniversary Report of the Class of '50, he described these years as an "artless." feverish rush going somewhere but, in retrospect, nowhere in an effort to realize my ambition...
...image was a self-serving myth, since the Resistance never comprised more than a tiny fraction of the population, which for the most part collaborated actively or passively with the Vichy government and the Germans. Ophuls's interviews with survivors revealed a shocking absence of moral sensibility, even in retrospect. The most egregious instance was the case of a man incapable of understanding what was wrong with advertising in local newspapers that he was not Jewish. Ophuls clearly implied that the French must recognize the extent of the national failing represented by the occupation and urged a rigorous self-examination...
Hicks had a difficult upbringing. His father was a Crown official in Pennsylvania who lost his fortune after the British defeat. His mother died before he was two. Hicks was consigned to the care of a Quaker farmer named Twining (one of his best paintings is an evocation in retrospect of the old Twining farm). At 13 he was apprenticed to a coachmaker: a coarse life in which he was, as he later lamented, "introduced by lechers and debauchees into the worst of company and places." One Sunday morning, suffering from a bad hangover, he blundered into a Quaker meetinghouse...
Still, her life there felt complete, at least in retrospect. One by one the others there died off leaving Anna alone, but she didn't feel lonely...
...part of it." Said Republican Garner Shriver of Kansas: "The feeling is that we have made a considerable contribution to Cambodia and South Viet Nam and that we've done enough." Added Democrat Joseph Gaydos, whose district encompasses the formerly pro-war steel towns of western Pennsylvania: "In retrospect, most people realize that regardless of how much we might have spent in lives or dollars, we couldn't have changed the outcome...