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Many will disagree with my forecast, but I offer it because predictions are always interesting in retrospect, whether right or wrong. Upon the celebration of the 150th anniversary of The Crimson, the editors of the future will have something to look back upon and analyze--six predictions that will later be deemed stupid, ironic or, hopefully, right on target...
...retrospect, the band can't complain about the long journey to stardom--little has changed conceptually for them. Even though the Mighty Mighty Bosstones has become a name of instant recognition instead of a moniker to be passed around among indie crowd, the band holds dear to its roots. The group continues to prefer the intimacy of the Middle East club to offer up their unique sound to the new and veteran fans, but getting them to move down one T stop to Harvard Square may be more difficult...
...retrospect illuminates the book's design, it obscures its ostensible subject. "This is a Degas we do not know well," Benfey notes of the not yet very famous man who stayed with the Mussons, and Benfey does not help us know this Degas any better. What Benfey instead introduces with his dense detail is a city peculiarly conducive to creativity. By turns menacing and nurturing, the New Orleans of the 1870s lurks behind every knotty relationship and every political machination of Degas' relatives, behind every story of Chopin's or Cable's and behind many of Degas' works...
Many students remarked, though, that in retrospect they were much less embarrassed by their parents than they had expected...
...retrospect, it's clear those were major misjudgments. Throughout this low-profile period, Jiang was cleverly shoring up his position in Beijing. He cultivated the military, one of China's most significant power centers, and slowly gained control of its upper ranks. When Beijing and Washington found themselves staring missile to battleship in the Taiwan Straits in mid-1995, in the most unequivocal U.S. show of support for Taiwan in recent memory, Jiang realized that the confrontation was perilous, and though he technically approved the missile launches, he was able to lay public blame on hard-line generals...