Word: retrospection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retrospect, it can be said of Uganda that its ancient monarchical divisions severely impeded its development as a nation after it achieved independence from Britain in 1962. For a while, Milton Obote, as Prime Minister, had an uneasy partnership with the last Kabaka (King) of Buganda kingdom, Edward Mutesa II, the dapper, Cambridge-educated "King Freddie," who became Uganda's figurehead President. But in 1966 Obote seized the presidency for himself and crushed the Kabaka's followers; King Freddie escaped to London, where he died penniless three years later. Obote never really succeeded in uniting the contending Ugandan...
Haley's twelve years of research and writing on Roots had begun. In retrospect, Haley firmly believes it was more than his own perseverance that got the book finished. "However this sounds," he says, "it was one of those things that God in his infinite wisdom and in his time and way decided should happen. I feel I'm a conduit through which this is happening. It was just something that was meant to be. I say this because there were so many things that had to happen over which I had no control. And if any one thing hadn...
Black student demand effected a more logical response in the form of a Faculty Committee on African and Afro-American Studies; logical in the sense that it was more than a hasty reaction to black demands for a relevant curriculum. In retrospect, the logic of that committee is questionable. How Martin Kilson, one of the most outspoken critics of black studies, came to sit on that committee causes one to wonder. Even more cause for wonder is how Henry Rosovsky, then professor, now dean, became the chairman. To Rosovsky, this came as no surprise. He was later to say that...
...participant in many Viet Nam War decisions, Brown in March 1968 advised stepped-up bombing to force the Communists to negotiate a settlement. At that time other strategists were urging the U.S. to wind down the war. Last week he described the war in retrospect as "a tragic time in which many mistakes were made-and I was not without my share of them...
...matter reach the newspaper, but since it has I will explain what only I can explain. I enclosed a copy of a draft of "All Flesh" in a personal letter to Sara Binder, sent to her residence, not her office, for her personal attention. I can of course, in retrospect, understand that, as Poetry Editor of the Advocate, she plausibly (but mistakenly) assumed that I wished it considered for publication. This idea was unequivocally not in my mind at the time. My act was, as it were, a simple "professional gesture" to a good friend whose opinions I respect...