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...begins a letter, poignant in retrospect, written by Charge d'Affaires L. Bruce Laingen of the U.S. embassy in Tehran to his wife in Bethesda, Md. The deposed Shah of Iran had been admitted to the U.S. for medical treatment less than two weeks earlier, and Laingen was describing an anti-American demonstration outside the embassy. Laingen left the letter on his office desk. Three days later-on Nov. 4, 1979-the embassy was overrun by Iranian militants and America's 444-day hostage ordeal began...
What they did was come within a three-wall bounce of beating one of the strongest squash teams put together since balls became hollow. Princeton's strength didn't dawn on anybody until Saturday's pairings took the court, but in retrospect, it's hard to believe we didn't notice earlier. (Fish probably had an inkling of the Tigers edge, wisely electing not to share it with his team...
Burr confirmed the impression held by Ackerman and others of the Corporation's outlook by saying. "We have been burnt many times before and it's cost a lot of money. There have been many times that we felt foolish, when in retrospect we would have been better to cancel the whole thing...
Roosevelt was not, most certainly, a saint. Even so admiring an observer as John Gunther, drawing up a catalogue of Roosevelt's many virtues and achievements in Roosevelt in Retrospect, charged him with "dilatoriness, two-sidedness (some critics would say plain dishonesty), pettiness in some personal relationships, a cardinal lack of frankness . . . inability to say No, love of improvisation, garrulousness, amateurism, and what has been called 'cheerful vindictiveness.' " And, as Duke's James Barber bluntly puts it, "he cheated on his wife...
...building nor sculpture." But of course it is precisely those unclassifiable qualities that make Lin's design so eminently right. It fits. At this time in the history of our architecture, and at this place in the monumental heart of Washington, additional buildings or sculptures would intrude. In retrospect, it is hard to conceive of anything but a horizontal landscape design that could meet the criteria that the memorial be "neither too commanding nor too deferential...