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Almost 30 years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act. At the moment of signing, he issued a statement that, in retrospect, sounds almost apologetic: "We have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age. This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete. It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions...
...management, but Nureyev persisted. Then, when the company arrived at Le Bourget that June morning to fly to London, Nureyev was informed that he was to go instead to Moscow to dance in the Kremlin, and could rejoin the tour later. "Dance in the Kremlin indeed," scoffs Nureyev in retrospect. "I knew this was a crisis. I was like a bird inside a net. A bird must fly, see the neighbor's garden and what lies beyond." So he flew...
...retrospect, Duchamp's ready-mades paved the way for the esthetic appreciation of machine-made objects. These off-the-shelf items presage pop artists' use of beer cans and soup cans as objets d'art. His art in boxes anticipated the present-day boxes of Louise Nevelson and Joseph Cornell. Even his dazzling eye bafflers that spun at 33 r.p.m. are the ancestors of today's kinetic op art. And critics are far from convinced that all the ideas have been mined from his Bride, etc., the first industrial collage...
More specifically, "big activities have tended to give way to those conducted in smaller groups." Furthermore, those of "a more mature nature, with substantial intellectual content," have gained at the expense of an earlier sort of undergraduate activity, "which seems in retrospect to have been carried on almost for activity's sake...
...major races from the press-service copy and other general sources. TIME correspondents will concentrate on adding depth and breadth to the general reporting-why the results took the various turns they did, how they were taken by politicians and people, what they mean, the reasons in retrospect for the surprises that are sure to occur, the human reactions of winners and losers...