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...retrospect, some recall the Summer of Loveas the last golden days of a decade of hope. Andin Berkeley, Calif., that hope took full flower...
...turned into Teflon, and who got hurt? The American people got hurt, and we're still paying for Judge ((Lawrence)) Walsh to try to figure out what happened. Wouldn't it have been simpler just to say, "I did it, and here's why I did it, and in retrospect I shouldn't have done...
...with the promise of closure, my personal opinions may now encounter, in retrospect, the presumably objective "news" that never appears on this page. Newspapers carefully monitor the placement of what is on the one hand called "opinion" and on the other, "news." I, too, have been so disciplined...
...bugging King's bedrooms. Far from a noble peacemaker, he was a hawkish enthusiast for dirty tricks and covert ops, so Machiavellian that -- according to Michael Beschloss's new book, The Crisis Years -- he may even have given his blessing to Khrushchev's building of the Berlin Wall. In retrospect, J.F.K. resembles Marrs' Galahad less than a gang leader like The Godfather's Michael Corleone -- the well- meaning son of a shadowy godfather (Joe Kennedy, with his bootlegging connections to the Mob), who can't escape his father's legacy or his family's cutthroat character...
...mental image of a major nation in decline is Britain. And, in retrospect, the British handled their decline pretty gracefully. In just a couple of generations Britain sank from economic and political superpower to second-rank member of a second-rank regional bloc. Yet the transformation happened without much domestic rancor, despite Britain's supposedly bitter class divisions. At worst, the general attitude was a certain sullen resignation. At best, there was a jolly, fatalistic insouciance. The Brits almost seemed to enjoy their ride down...