Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Initially, Humphrey thought Richard Nixon would be an easy target. The Chicago debacle changed his mind. In retrospect, Humphrey believes that he might have made more headway with Eugene McCarthy's dissidents if he had spoken out sooner on Viet Nam. Even before the convention, he had a speech ready saying that he might try a bombing halt if elected. But he was persuaded to wait until the end of September by advice from Paris that an earlier announcement might have hampered the peace talks. Humphrey, unlike many supporters and pollsters, does not believe that a few more days...
...candor, he added: "I hope I'm right. I hope for the good of the country I'm right." Nixon, too, must be hoping for a better show from Agnew. He himself now regrets his choice-although in public he must continue to defend it. In retrospect, he looks longingly at respected public figures such as John Gardner, who might well have been available...
...retrospect, it is clear that last summer when the Jeff Beck Group took the country by storm, the group was basically unformed and quite rough at the edges, although always vital and exciting. With the addition of Nicky Hopkins the group has entered a period of maturity and has taken on a new dimension. If Jeff Beck did not have Hopkins, he would have had to invent...
...Republican National Committee had really done was to delay the proceedings until prime time and to limit the seconding speeches for candidates to five minutes. The net works found themselves reporting a spectacle whose script they were basically powerless to enliven. As NBC's John Chancellor noted in retrospect: "Conventions were structured and their main patterns made up when people got their information from newspapers. Today we are seeing something that was made for a newspaper age that has survived into...
...Pevsner fled to the West, Tatlin ended his days in Russia as an obscure drafts man and stage designer, experimenting with Leonardo-like flying machines. (The Soviet government apparently still thinks so little of him that it refused to lend any work to the Stockholm show.) But in retrospect, argues the Modern Museum's Pontus Hulten, "Tatlin is emerging ever more clearly as one of the few really great figures of 20th century art. His ideas mean more at present for many of the younger artists than Picasso or the surrealists...