Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, the crusade is what it was in prospect: the most exciting, intimate and high-stakes presidential campaign of modern times. In 1968 the nation was hopelessly fractious. Besieged by opposition to a war not wanted and not understood, Lyndon Johnson was more a prisoner than a President, hostage to his Texas-macho aversion to becoming the "first American President to lose a war." The brother of his martyred predecessor, whose policies had mired the nation in the mess in the first place, wanted Johnson's job and an end to the war. So did Clean Gene McCarthy...
...applause, commercial success and a nagging uneasiness among the author's devoted readers. Might this summing-up of a life's work, coming from a man whose career had already been decorated with a Nobel Prize, be an indication that Singer, then 74, was thinking of slowing down? In retrospect, ! of course, it would have made more sense and wasted less time to be concerned that birds would stop singing or the world suddenly grow sensible and dull. Forces of nature do not stop voluntarily. Sure enough, a book of 22 new Singer stories appeared in 1985, and now here...
Bechstein's adventure is like that of T.S. Eliot's in "Four Quartets." At the end of his destination, Bechstein arrives at the same place he had been, only to find it different than he had remembered it. In retrospect, he appreciates the journey, which grows to heroic proportions in his memory...
Bruce S. Miller '90, one of four Harvard students who went on the service project last year, agrees. He says he found his stay in the Mexico City slum very disagreeable but in retrospect, he felt the project was a worthwhile experience...
...desire to be the "education President," a nice phrase that remains a flesh-free bone in his skeletal rhetoric. To go much further would be to flaunt the reality that, unlike Reagan, Bush at heart is a pragmatist rather than an ideologue, a manager rather than an innovator. In retrospect, Bush's caution was just right for the orthodox Republican primary electorate in most states, and particularly in the South, where Reagan's popularity rating in the party remains above 80%. But presidential campaigns are about change and the future, themes that Bush has yet to discover...