Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration agreed to let every senior have her own apartment. Reporters and friends who talked with the girls during the course of the strike remarked that they seemed "driven by some freakish, martyr-like vision of their cause. They talk as if they're a besieged people." In retrospect, it seems obvious that the girls' wrath far outran their reason, but during those five days, they were real celebrities in the Quad. Refusing at first even to chew gum or take vitamin capsules, the girls found their cheekbones becoming hollow, their eyes glazing; telegrams of support arrived from their families...
...merits of the strikers' complaints, which have been widely discussed at Radcliffe, are less important, in retrospect, than the fact that they felt moved to strike in the first place. Some of the 23 girls on the strike -- and the 50 who held a one day sympathy strike -- obviously were not as intense about getting their own apartments as were the handful of leaders. But all of them, and others who only observed from afar, agreed that they had been tricked, deceived, and put off through three months of bureaucratic mismanagement. Had the dean of residence told them...
...retrospect, Otto Preminger must be credited with having stood up against the dominant force of the '50's. Separate Tables, The Man With the Golden Arm, and other Preminger films demonstrated considerable personal honesty (which by itself, of course, may be worth nothing) and tried to alter rather than cater to prevailing tastes...
...start, he had a sense of being apart, endowed with special purpose. Once he had concluded that somebody could fly nonstop and solo from New York to Paris, he decided that it might as well be he. The whole business of financing and designing his plane seems in retrospect hair-raisingly slapdash. But he knew exactly what he was doing. Examining reports of earlier crashes, he figured that everything had to be subordinated to saving weight; for instance, elaborate equipment for a forced landing, he decided, was not worth the cost in weight, which could be better used for extra...
Such a foundation's most difficult and elusive task would be to wed public policy and private initiative, to maintain a link with the Government without be coming bogged down in bureaucracy or timidity. For in retrospect, perhaps the CIA's most important contribution was not money but unconventional and imaginative ideas, notwithstanding failures. If the new "mechanism" can steer between a too specific, outdated cold war orientation, on the one hand, and an aimless benevolence on the other, it has a truly exciting chance not merely to provide shelter for the orphans but to modify the entire...