Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Destination of the Johnson Collection, currently at the Fort Worth Art Center, is Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts. What the Smithsonian will get is a panoramic survey of U.S. painting, restricted in time but encompassing the then current art scene. In retrospect, the moment it caught was one of transition between abstract expressionism and the pop-op movement, but the collection has enough prime works by established artists to prove that for American art, almost any year in recent decades has been a vintage year...
Moreover, Phillips' full catalogue of Truman's presidential faults seriously undercuts his basic proposition. He concludes, in retrospect, that the Hiroshima bomb was probably unnecessary-Japan was already suing for peace. He admits that the Potsdam agreements encouraged Soviet imperialism. He blames Truman for an unconscionably rapid postwar demobilization, for a bankrupt China policy, and for all the domestic sins that critics have laid at Truman's door: government by crony, incompetence and corruption in Government, and "the disease of McCarthyism, which began-and got out of hand -while he was in the White House...
...earth, and help scientists learn more about how heat escapes from the earth's interior. In addition, the formula final ly establishes a correct relationship be tween a substance in its solid and liquid states, besides offering a new approach to studies of the melting process. In retrospect, Kennedy's discovery might seem obvious, but the startling truth is that generations of scientists overlooked it. "The profession must be full of asses," says Nobel Prize Chemist Willard Libby, discoverer of the carbon-14 dating process. "How can anyone be so stupid as not to have seen...
...supposedly invincible Bronx Bombers really did bomb out, and it wasn't so surprising in retrospect. And there would be just as little mystery tonight in McHugh Forum, where the Crimson really could beat the pollsters' pick for number one in the East...
...entire freshman dorm to house the seminar's 40 boys and a whole corridor in a Radcliffe dorm for the 20 girls. When this was not possible, he settled for a small frame house near the Square to use as the group's home away from home. In retrospect, Riesman is relieved that the first scheme failed. "Enough group solidarity developed as it was," he says. "I just went to another seminar wedding...