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Tran doesn’t come across as pushy or attention-seeking. In retrospect, Tran thinks what distinguished the contestants who moved farther was a little extra spark that they put on when the time was ripe...
...retrospect, one of the high points of the Lincoln legend may also have marked its breaking point. In August 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech by paying homage to Lincoln: "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came...
Life is surprising as it happens but remarkably predictable in retrospect. Once time has conferred its brand of wisdom, even the least perceptive person can look back and recognize how one misstep of fate led to another. Thus a hallmark of growing older is the increasing impact of memory, simultaneously spurring regret and reconciliation. Those conflicting impulses are at the heart of Michael Frayn's Benefactors. Its four characters, addressing the audience from the perspective of middle age, watch themselves in flashback as exuberantly misguided young adults. And although the play's nominal topics include high-rise architecture, neighborhood preservation...
...captivating record of 1956 to 1966, when the director's collaborations with Beckett and Albee brought all three to the pinnacle of esteem. Schneider, a born pessimist, details the missteps and agonies of doubt that led up to each landmark production and makes every victory seem as surprising in retrospect as it was to him at the time. Few books have so vividly portrayed the initial fragility of what now seem eternal works of dramatic writing. Schneider specifies some literate imbeciles who offhandedly dismissed the talents of Beckett, Harold Pinter and Eugene Ionesco. He recalls how Bert Lahr willfully misread...
...season." Sometimes, the worst thing to be in America is second best in the world. "It doesn't make much sense, does it?" He started four Super Bowls at defensive tackle and, ending with XI, lost every one. "Almost none of the specifics have stayed with me. In retrospect, the result really isn't all that important. The excitement is in the striving, not the attaining, going out and trying to perform, hopefully enjoying ourselves along the way." Page gives little thought to football now. "The things I learned there aren't very transferable. I suppose they shaped...