Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council in such matters are not utterly random or unprincipled, but are supposed to be based on the laws and regulations of the University. Our association, of course, recognizes the power of the Faculty committee to enact any rule at any time and to make it applicable even in retrospect. However, we cannot see how we could be condemned on the basis of a law which has not been enacted, and which the Council has not, to date, recommended that it be enacted...
Every Broadway season looks in prospect like an ingenue in a bridal gown, and in retrospect like a naked iguana. Somehow, the paper promises -the mere names, titles and themes - are always unbearably alluring; but it is much easier to develop a good idea for a show than to develop a good show, and Broadway never looks better than it does in August, just before it starts down the aisle...
...Senate Commerce Committee, which summoned CAB Chairman Alan Boyd to account for the retreat. Boyd explained that though the CAB lacked the power to set international air fares, he had hoped to block the fare rise by winning away enough foreign lines to isolate the British. "In retrospect," he admitted, "you could say we were not smart...
...retrospect, though, Charles W. Eliot concluded that James unsystematic excursions should have foretold the nature of his later devotion to philosophical studies. After less than three years in the scientific division of the College, James transferred to the Medical School--he obtained an M.D. degree in 1869. Like Henry Adams, and in sharp contrast to his fellow pragmatist, Charles Sanders Peirce, James had not distinguished himself as a student. He had evidently browsed, listened to the luminaries, and talked a good deal...
...tempo of change has increased, prophecy has become an increasingly hazardous undertaking. Most recent predictions in retrospect seem unaccountably timid; one has the feeling that the prophets of late have failed to recognize the most fundamental aspect of scientific endeavor today--its incredible, accelerating rate of discovery and accomplishment...