Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schlesinger led what he called in his last work "the shift from 'drum and trumpet history' to 'the history of culture, the real history of men and women.'" In the book, In Retrospect: the History of a Historian, he defined social history as an effort to "grasp and depict both the inner and outer life of society and to integrate...
...felt strange to be sitting in Symphony Hall, listening to Leinsdorf conduct the BSO, and hearing bad blend and faulty intonation even occasionally. The total effect of the Beethoven was exhilarating, but I can't help wondering, in retrospect, whether my standards are too high (after all, the players are only human), or whether it could indeed have been better. When the Aristocrat of Orchestras falls down on the job, what values are sacred...
...PIGS. This fiasco of the new Kennedy Administration in April 1961 is blamed in retrospect by State Department officials on a storm of "angry world opinion" that scared off the U.S. Government from carrying through the overthrow of Castro it had secretly planned. Yet some of the U.S.'s staunchest allies were (unofficially) more appalled by the U.S.'s display of faint heart...
...Victorian tradition and proclaimed in a booming voice that heroines are not often virgins heroes are not usually gentlemen. He did not necessarily punish the wicked. Indeed, in Dreiser's novels good and evil do not exist-there is only unheroic suffering and scrambling for success. In retrospect, his prose seems clotted, clumsy, pompous, prolix, humorless, flatulent and dull. An American Tragedy ran to 385,000 words ("250,000 of them unnecessary," snorted Mencken). Nevertheless, Dreiser's dogged honesty and ruthless candor opened the way for all the social realists of the '30s (many drearier than Dreiser...
Peculiar Breeds. But Wilson is accustomed to life on the edge of the precipice. In retrospect, last week looked positively rosy. In the money marts of the world, the British pound was triumphantly steady, and even rose a bit. With a minimum of grumbling, Britain had accepted a tough austerity budget. Wilson's recent tour of Allied capitals produced surprising warmth and a fresh estimate of Britain's stature. And Wilson is holding the line in Britain's overseas defense system, stretching from Germany to Aden, and in Malaysia, where a beefed-up British expeditionary force...