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...J.F.K. in the New Republic, Gerald Clarke calls the speech "jingoistic, a Monroe Doctrine for the globe itself." The New York Times's Anthony Lewis notes, that Kennedy's promise to "pay any price, bear any burden . . . to assure the survival and success of liberty" appears, in retrospect, to have been the summons to Viet Nam. His subsequent promise to put man on the moon seems to many today an empty goal on a planet festering with pollution...
...last fall's campaign. Now, like other Vice Presidents before him, including Richard Nixon, he is being cast by some in the White House as a scapegoat for the G.O.P.'s performance. Nixon certainly cannot quarrel with the substance of what Agnew said during the campaign. In retrospect, however, there was something in Agnew's manner, his unpredictability and ferocity, that Nixon did not entirely like. The President, for example, sent Agnew out to capsize New York's liberal Republican Senator Charles Goodell. But Nixon did not tell him to label Goodell "the Christine Jorgensen...
...past year, he said, "was filled with anxiety during its passage. Yet now in retrospect it appears to have been a constructive period when attitudes began to alter, and restorative forces reasserted themselves...
Maybe; maybe not. One generation's renaissance has always been, in retrospect, another's dark age. Even if Glass is correct, mankind may modestly be considered to have at least a century or so of work ahead if it is to sort out what to do with its vast creative-destructive expertise. The majority of the earth's people, after all, have yet to be touched by technetronic miracles. Even those who have been touched have retained enough violent mystery to occupy several generations of Ph.D.s...
...retrospect, the sturdy figure of Gertrude Stein looms over the cultural landscape of pre-World War I Paris like an old-fashioned radio-squat, massive, dark and droning out an endless stream of words. But if her words were sometimes tedious, her eye was seldom wrong. In fact, no American expatriate was a shrewder judge of Paris' radical new art. The Stein family, which came to be known as les Americains, made a powerful buying unit; it helped keep some of the best young artists in Europe alive. Gertrude's brother Leo (an aesthete of some pretension, some...