Word: retrospection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events are there, of course, providing a framework. Menuhim recalls the unique home shielding him from the distortion that menaces any child prodigy: "I am one of those privileged people whose early years shine in retrospect as a time of unblemished happiness." There is the extraordinary upbringing: residences in San Francisco Paris and Switzerland, exposure to Europe's musical elite between the wars on endless train rides and the acquisition (without formal education) of competence in half-a-dozen languages and an unfettered intellectual curiosity...
Everyone has their own personal Harvard horror story, but many focus in retrospect on their experiences during Freshman Week, and with good reason. Some really enjoy the week--the more outgoing types and those from far away seem to fare best. Saturday was probably the best night to watch the goings-on; it's too soon for people to be turned off by the Velveeta-like sameness of the parties...
...tried to be moderate and dependable," says the young American diplomat-narrator of Paul Theroux's latest fiction, "for the fact is that colorful characters-almost unbearable in the flesh -are colorful only in retrospect." For ten years now the productive Theroux has been transforming the unbearable flesh encountered during his wide travels into pleasurable pages. His eight novels include Girls at Play, Jungle Lovers and Saint Jack, whose settings and atmospheres were drawn from the author's years as a Peace Corpsman in Africa and a teacher in Malaysia...
...think so. In retrospect, I know the three of us, plus the Vice President, who meets with us on all occasions -none of us would undo what we had done, nor would we have approached the issue in a more timid fashion...
...charge of an information program with centers in ten cities, which would still be a fine thing if it hadn't been for the Chinese communist revolution. Since then various characters have been asking me why I let it happen. (What was my real motive? etc.) Nationalist China, in retrospect, seems to have been like a sick patient--to hide the gravity of the illness would leave people unwarned, to announce it was demoralizing. Most of us in the China business, I think, were over-optimistic and under-informed about the communists, the same as the American public in general...