Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unrestricted bombing of defended civilian populations. The Allies had done the same thing in order to destroy enemy industrial centers. Today the U.S. may be hard put to justify the fire-bombing of Dresden or the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which seem less necessary in retrospect than they did at the time. But so far, bombing a defended city is not a specific war crime. Given the goal of saving U.S. troops' lives (the rationale for Hiroshima), it can still be called a military necessity. In North Viet Nam, moreover, U.S. bombing was a model...
What drugs symbolized for a while was a feeling of oneness, unity within the universe. Jerry says, "I am God . . . no really, I am the Messiah." That entire hippie ethic of community of spirit and loving everyone just died somewhere along the track of hepatitis, busts and commercialism. In retrospect, one is struck only by the devastating naivete involved in that movement. While it was drugs that brought that feeling of community, ironically, they also brought an awareness of how isolated people really are Jerry's mother says, "Scientists tells us we are not alone in the universe. That...
...orphans: the general supposition was that after 1650, Italian art slid into provincial decadence. From this sad landscape, littered with insignificant talents fit only for doctoral theses or bourgeois mantels, a few fine painters emerged: Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi, a handful of others. Giovanni-Battista Tiepolo, in fact, seems in retrospect to have been the last Italian artist formed in the heroic mold. A protean figure of bewildering facility and adaptability, he was the link between high historical painting and rococo elegance, able to invest a pen drawing with as much tension and airy scale as a painted ceiling. But generally...
...retrospect, the McCarthy campaign was the single most effective anti-war effort in the last ten years. It caused the downfall of the most powerful President since Franklin Roosevelt. It brought home to politicians everywhere the realization that the anti-war movement is not just a whim of left wing intellectuals, but is a current which runs strong in the American public, a current which can be translated into votes: the only language most politicians understand...
...possible-not to support aggression in Southeast Asia. All elections are sufficiently close that hard work and money can make a difference. 1972 might seem like a long time away. But in November 1969, 15 months would have seemed like too long yet we would gladly. I think, in retrospect have settled for the war being over...