Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans for the Reunion were started in January with the publication of the first issue of the "Twelve Twenty-Five Express," the class magazine. Contained in that number was a satirical retrospect in the manner of John Tunis '11 by one of the Class of 1912's sons, Robert Benchley...
...easy to be tolerant in retrospect, so hard to be unmoved by the hatreds of the moment. The emotions of 1914-1917 and those of today represent the psychological disturbances of a people at peace. By estimating the magnitudes of these strains we can at least understand better the irrational vindictiveness of a people at war. The protestations of even intelligent. Northerners when Robert E. Lee was made President of Washington College at Lexington, Virginia, shortly after the close of the Civil War seem strange to this generation which in every part of the country recognizes Lee's greatness...
...Stalin only recently staged in Moscow an amazing trial of alleged "Trotskyist conspirators" against himself (TIME, Aug. 31). Death sentences were passed and swiftly executed upon 16 of the accused, several of whom had long annoyed Stalin by timid carping at his policies, and this trial is still in retrospect so stirring that in Manhattan last week pinks and reds of various hues held a monster mass meeting about it, addressed by such harmless folk as Norman Thomas...
...retrospect there was strong suspicion that the Conservative British Government and the Bolshevik Russian Government had each come to the conclusion that they could make political capital out of an overt and noisy appearance of supporting the Spanish Cabinet, just as Madrid was in mortal danger of falling to the Whites (see p. 34). Should it fall without either Stanley Baldwin or Joseph Stalin having done anything to uphold Spanish Democracy or Spanish Bolshevism-these being matters of the point of view-what was Mr. Baldwin to say afterward to British devotees of Democracy, and what was Comrade Stalin...
...retrospect, we feel that although some fraction of the recipients of the recent bonus deserved all that the government could give them and many, perhaps, even more than was finally allotted, nevertheless, it is true that some ridicule is healthy and necessary for good government. --Yale Daily News