Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cobb '72, a member of the UHS student committee, said the forthcoming questionnaire differs from King's study because "with Dr. King's questionnaire, everything was in retrospect. This (new study) hits you in the Health Services, when you can remember everything...
Langer. Does it strike you in retrospect as surprising that in your position you didn't know very much? I'm struck by the way you both sound like ordinary citizens, like the "man on the street," when in fact you both were in and out of Washington, knew a lot of people, and presumably had some power...
...maintained that fundamental conflict was absent in post-industrial America, and that decisions about the direction of society were purely technical, SDS's founding charter--the Port Huron Statement--condemned a "perverted democracy" that permitted "disastrous policies to go unchallenged time and again." These charges--which seem mild in retrospect--represented a sharp break with the political past in a pre-Vietnam, pre-Watts America...
...assured me of his deep opposition to the war, but said he questioned the efficacy of the tactics of current antiwar protests. A despair over tactics, a feeling that we aren't getting anywhere, has logically become stronger as the was has continued. Any demonstration observed alone appears in retrospect to have accomplished nearly nothing...
...retrospect, Johnson thinks his greatest mistake was waiting too long?18 months in office?before putting more men in, for by then Viet Nam was almost lost. Another mistake, he feels, was failing to institute censorship?not to cover up mistakes, but to prevent the enemy from knowing what the U.S. was going to do next. As for trying to hide the troop buildup, L.B.J.'s rationale is that he was trying to avoid inflaming hawk sentiment in the U.S. and to avoid goading Hanoi into calling on the Communist Chinese for help...