Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the other criticism against Davis stressed the racial implications of his articles. There was a reason for this, and even in retrospect a good one. It has to do with statements Davis had made linking genetics and heredity. Davis, who teaches Nat Sci 37, "Evolution, Genetics and Society," only goes halfway in a theory of biological determinism: He says there is no way to statistically prove difference in intelligence. But he has made pronouncements to the effect that the separation of gene pools of the races down through the years may cause genetic differences...
...along with others has proffered an elitist theory of labor organization development. Again, briefly and simplistically, Dunlop in Industrialism and Industrial Man (1960) outlined a theory of industrialism controlled by management elites--labor movements were explained as conditioned responses to the nation's developing economy. It seems obvious, in retrospect, that Dunlop, Ford's former labor secretary, would develop a theory useful to management and unacceptable to historians...
...more of the smaller parties (Socialist, Social Democratic, or Republican)--have shown themselves increasingly unable to cope with Italy's economic problems over the past few years. The rapid post-war industrialization of the country and the accompanying rise in the standard of living seem, in retrospect, to have peaked in 1969. Since then, the DC has been unwilling to advocate restriction and reform of government spending--a policy that would damage the interests of petty bureaucrats and multinational corporations. Nor has the party developed a coherent policy of "austerity," which might include, for example, taxes on luxury goods...
...shadow of Soweto will clearly hang over the Prime Minister's talks with Kissinger−one of those awkward summits that West German officials, in retrospect, probably wish could have been held elsewhere. Responding to threats of embarrassingly massive protests against Vorster and his government's apartheid policies, the Bonn government last week shifted the proposed site of the meeting from Hamburg to southern Bavaria. Kissinger and his 100-member retinue will be ensconced at the Hotel Sonnenhof in the picturesque village of Grafenau (pop. 4,000), deep in the Bayerischer Wald and about 13 miles from...
...retrospect, most of its principals seem to agree, 1600 was probably doomed as early as 1972. That was when Lerner, depressed by the Nixon landslide, decided to write a musical comedy about "the first 100 years of the White House and other attempts to take it away from us." The action would revolve around 13 Presidents, their wives and their black servants. The play within a play would involve performers dropping in and out of character to discuss acting problems along with the problems faced by the various Presidents-Lerner's way of conveying his notion of American democracy...