Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retrospect, the trial probably did the U.S. some good. Paris' L'Aurore dismissed it as "a circus." Le Figaro Litteraire accused Sartre of "childish ness." London's Observer said that the trial gave an excuse "to those who want to avoid thinking seriously about Viet Nam." It did more than that. It finally exposed the extreme critics of the U.S. position in Viet Nam for what they are -cynical and ridiculous...
...time, it seemed like a good idea; in retrospect, its defects are more conspicuous than its advantages. It would never have reached the one group of students pass-fail is supposed to help most--those who have to work hard getting good grades in their regular courses. In effect, it would have rewarded students for doing more work, negating the very advantages it set out to create...
...becomes legend, print the legend," Ford's films show the legend. His world is diffused by time, by memory and nostalgia, by folklore and myth. In How Green Was My Valley, Ford's adaptation of Llewellyn's novel of Welsh coal miners, the story resembles a dream, seen in retrospect by a man who has had his entire life to romanticize the past: his childhood and his family. Ford is not interested in reality but in subjective viewpoint, not fact but romance and legend...
...Tell Me a Riddle," a movie about a Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria, will be shown at 8 p.m. tonight at 2 Divinity Ave. A discussion on the Peace Corps in retrospect will follow the movie...
...gesture? I saw that I was really debating with myself and losing. "Well," I said, shamefaced, abashed at my own lack of resolution, "why don't we put it off, then?" "Putting it off," of course, meant dropping the whole idea. I backed out quickly and disappeared. In retrospect the memory is painful...