Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RETROSPECT-Aldous Huxley-Double-day, Doran ($2.50). Fourteen hundred pages of Author Huxley's reprinted prose & verse, including Brave New World, Crome Yellow, Leda...
...doubt that each step was the natural and proper sequel to what had preceded. The series not only was logical, as it presented itself prospectively to the mind of President Lowell, but (which is much more important) is logical now that it is realized and can be viewed in retrospect. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...American dollar. . . . Credit is being expanded and normal jobs are coming back. . . . September alone shows an increase of 3 6/10% in employment. . . . Let no man say that things could not have been worse. Things could have been so much worse that today would look like prosperity in retrospect...
...views this play in retrospect, it appears a little crude, the superior craftsmanship and conception of the Ulysses play have somewhat spoiled it for anyone familiar with the latter. It has some of the ridiculousness of the typical Eugene O'Neill mood, and the method of running words together making sense by their sound effect and their individual connotation rather than by their conventional sequence meaning has not been as yet made sufficiently forceful...
...remembers Fanchon, the exotic little product of great hotels and continental schools, who actually "were her hair up" and shocked the children's party with the new Bunny Hug and Turkey Trot and Slingo Sligo Slide. Those naive and incredible days of 1912 made a story that, in retrospect, has the quaint provincialism of "Cranford...