Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first sign came while the body of the dead Dalai Lama still sat in state; its head, which had been turned traditionally toward the south, mysteriously turned east. To the seers this was an indication that the new Dalai Lama must be looked for in the east. In retrospect, they might give it a different meaning. For since then Tibet has been conquered from the east by Red China, which is currently carrying on a vigorous campaign to woo Asia's 150 million Buddhists...
...study of International Relations seems to be coming from men who believe that the area has not been sufficiently developed as a discipline to warrant separate treatment. Any broad approach to contemporary foreign problems can be little more than a close examination of "The New York Times in Retrospect," they theorize. This unreasonably academic argument, however, ignores the fundamental importance of objective conditions throughout the world in determining a coherent and workable American foreign policy. And since students of International Relations--whether they plan careers in the foreign service, business, or journalism--are primarily concerned with understanding the range...
Long acknowledged as a master craftsman in an exacting trade, Bates writes with an English sense of place and social pattern; his prose often carries the gleam of England's pale sunlight. The title story is a neatly cut account of murder, told obliquely and in retrospect. A farmer kills the man he suspects of seducing his bride. Returning home after serving his sentence, the farmer finds his daughter now almost the same age his wife had been when he killed her lover. Slowly, and by indirection, the reader becomes aware that the daughter, too, could be seduced...
...week the air was full of brickbats for Secretary Hobby and her department, although President Eisenhower defended her (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In retrospect, a good deal of the blame for the vaccine snafu also went to the National foundation, which, with years of publicity, had built up the danger of polio out of all proportion to its actual incidence, and had rushed into vaccinations this year with patently insufficient preparation...
...Columnist Mortimer and the estate of Editor Lait, who died last year, gave up the pretense of defending the book. To settle the libel suit, Lait's estate and Mortimer paid a "substantial" sum of money to the store, footed the bill for newspaper ads abjectly admitting: "In retrospect and on more careful examination, these statements, we are now convinced, are untrue and were made without proof or credible evidence...