Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer Apart. But in retrospect, many New Yorkers could see that the Rockefeller split had been in the making for quite a while. They had not been seen together-at least in public-since last March, when fire badly damaged the Governor's Mansion in Albany. After Tod awakened Nelson by pounding on the door of his adjoining bedroom, they escaped through windows to a porch roof. While the mansion was being repaired, Rocky checked into an Albany hotel alone. Tod summered at Seal Harbor, he at the Venezuelan ranch. Since then, Rocky has appeared at scores of ceremonial...
...retrospect, Eisenhower-and more especially his civilian superiors-might have paid greater heed to British plans for countering Soviet ambitions in Germany. But it is difficult to fault Ike on his resolution of the strategic choices before him. Sums up authoritative Military Historian Forrest (The Supreme Command) Pogue, in Command Decisions: "When considered from the purely military viewpoint, his decision was certainly the proper one." In the war against Hitler, mistakes were made; but the key errors were the political agreements to divide Germany after the battle, not the military decisions on how to conquer...
Just as a pilot program must work in the context of the older structure, a new program must be developed from the status quo. In retrospect, it has become quite clear that giving Sophomore Standing students all of the privileges of Sophomores was unrealistic and unnecessary, and attracted students who might have very little legitimate reason for accelerating. But at the time, the simple elimination of one year was the least revolutionary way of shortening the college years, for it called fewer principles into question than any total rearrangement might have done...
...structures had freed the façade for inventive sculpturing, opened up interiors, surrendered the long dark walls to light. And as a grace note, he had added the roof garden. These devices, which he imperiously declared to be the basis of a "fundamentally new esthetic," seem simple in retrospect-but then, so does the arch...
While it would perhaps be too much to thank the Cambridge Police force for making rioting a pleasure, it is entirely proper to thank them for making it safe. Even their use of tear gas is--in retrospect--understandable, for it, too, probably saved a few people from really hurting themselves. In New Haven, Harvard students should remember, they do things differently...