Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assures us. "No one is going to jump into an icy Charles without clothes on anymore"). The next day, a story reported that Hilary Putnam, the Faculty Old Faithful of the radical left, has severed his association with P.L. and will seek no further affiliation with radical groups. In retrospect, Putnam says, it was a mistake for P.L. and SDS to couple racism and academic freedom in the Herrnstein controversy...
...complained that her husband showed no reaction when she spoke to him, Berger replayed a tape made at a previous joint therapy session. In the rerun, the wife talked while her husband held his pipe in clenched fingers and tamped down the tobacco with a jabbing motion that in retrospect revealed a "squelched inner fury...
...cathartic act of throwing a brick or yelling obscenities becomes, in retrospect, strange and irrational. Yet the action remains a part of us as another means of expressing frustration. One remembers the growing sense of resignation, while marching down streets, block after block in the pouring rain of New York City calling to the curious officeworkers "Join us, join us, it's your fight too;" and one remembers the sense of pride when one of the onlookers says "God bless you, I will." One remembers people sharing food and belongings, as well as beliefs, so that one elderly woman participating...
Almost universally, people who see Sorrow and Pity come out with admiration and respect for Christian de la Masiere, a French aristocrat who fought in the Waffen SS for the Nazis on the Eastern front against Russia--in retrospect hardly the most justifiable position for a Frenchman during World War II. Ophuls himself said "I feel I have the right to judge Fascists" like la Masiere, and judge them severely. Yet we are unable to judge this man harshly--his principles, yes; his person, no. And this fact has confused many people who have tried hard to tease...
...decided they had had it, and went on strike for an end to the war and domestic in justices? What did you do that spring? Canvass in Charlestown? Skip exams and play tennis? Go home early? I wrote impassioned stories about the Harvard employe strike for The Crimson. In retrospect, it did not matter what we did, individually or collectively. We thought students had attained a position of strength and influence; in another time and place, perhaps that would have been true. But it was a narrow-based movement then, eliciting only limited support beyond the left-liberal American intelligentsia...