Word: retrospective
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...don’t know in retrospect if that’s a terrific idea,” says George M. Whitesides ’60 about his three-year College education. “All the things that would be wonderful to have done in that last year, I didn’t do them....It’s nice at the time because it makes you feel special, but what comes of the flexibility is what you make...
...Unlike other Presidents-except, perhaps, for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson-Reagan came to power as the leader of an ideological movement: in his case, a fierce conservatism forged and tempered by decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized...
...ambulance to stop by firing [in its direction], and it stopped, and two men came out and asked if I could sit up in the ambulance. [Later] they took me out and put me in a stretcher, and I saw a huge statue. I think later on, in retrospect, it was a church near the beach, silhouetted in the darkness. The next morning I saw the German prisoners marching by me. The 175th Infantry Regiment apparently landed around that time, and German snipers opened up on the beach, including the wounded. I got shot in my right knee...
This is a shame, because in retrospect it would be useful to understand such phenomena were I ever to find myself in the middle of some serious plate action—living in Los Angeles, for instance. But there were a host of problems involved in trying to teach something outside most students’ spheres of experience and confidence which need to be considered more explicitly before still more such classes are foisted upon the much-beleaguered student body. Big issues like the fact that the enrollment represents wildly divergent background knowledge and high-school science curricula...
...final doubles match of Lingman and Riddell appeared all the more important in retrospect. Though the doubles point was only one of the Crimson’s five, it proved the impetus Harvard would need...