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...Thursday, 26 October, the Board decided tentatively to accept as evidence in the Mallinckrodt cases only eyewitness testimony of officers of the University. In retrospect, it is clear that this decision, subsequently altered, resulted in considerable confusion...
...retrospect, Picasso's reluctance to have his sculpture judged on a par with his painting seems a needless reticence. For, although he has treated sculpture as something he did with his left hand, the present exhibition proves that his left hand knew quite well what the right hand drew, and on occasion did it better. Even the simplest piece-a hawk's head snipped from a piece of sheet iron-needs no signature. The work is plainly Picasso...
...singular and well-observed feature of war is for the view in retrospect to depart radically from that which attended the beginning. Dangers which at the outset of hostilities seemed to justify the most sanguinary steps in the perspective of years seem slight, sometimes frivolous. And prospects which at the beginning of conflict seemed easy and brilliant come to measure only the depth of the miscalculation. The case of men who in the last 30 years have planned expeditions against Moscow, Pearl Harbor and Pusan--not to mention Jerusalem and Tel Aviv--sufficiently establishes the point...
...Despite their swift defeat in 1956, this time the Arabs seemed to expect a long, leisurely war of attrition. Though two squadrons of Algerian MIG-21s arrived, they were a fatal 24 hours too late because Egyptian commanders had failed to instruct them which airbase to head for. In retrospect, it might have been even worse if they had arrived in time for the Israeli raids. Five planeloads of Moroccan troops actually got to Cairo, but five others were grounded in Libya because Egypt had not given them clearance to enter Egyptian airspace. More than 100 truckloads of Algerian troops...
...merits of the strikers' complaints, which have been widely discussed at Radcliffe, are less important, in retrospect, than the fact that they felt moved to strike in the first place. Some of the 23 girls on the strike -- and the 50 who held a one day sympathy strike -- obviously were not as intense about getting their own apartments as were the handful of leaders. But all of them, and others who only observed from afar, agreed that they had been tricked, deceived, and put off through three months of bureaucratic mismanagement. Had the dean of residence told them...