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...knowledge--recent Biblical study indicates--he entered a new realm. No longer the chosen son, he was forced, as undergraduates say, "to sweat it." As a consequence, the real ethos of the Expulsion Complex is nostalgia; embellished reminiscences in which one's pre-Harvard splendor may become, in retrospect near dazzling...
Last Man Out. In retrospect, Hubert's top aides now feel that the only other serious contenders were McNamara, whom Lyndon admires tremendously, and Bobby, because he is a Kennedy...
...Burton, the foster father who gave Richard Burton his name and trained him as an actor. We sat in $50 seats. All the ones in front of us were worth $100. If that sounds like a lot of money to you, it sure does to me, too, but in retrospect, I guess it seems worth it. Not only did the theater academy get more than $30,000 out of it, but also these two really courageous people really proved themselves before everybody...
...retrospect, Murphy feels that at one point during his 40-year career he should have resigned in public protest. That was in the summer of 1948 when the Russians had sealed off Berlin and Murphy, who was serving as civilian political adviser to Military Governor Lucius Clay, was summoned with his boss to Washington to discuss the blockade. It consisted at that time of a wooden pole suspended across the highway at Helmstedt-and removable, Murphy was convinced, by a token show of force. The decision to launch the Berlin airlift seemed to him a serious mistake. The dramatic success...
...scandal. There was a grown man, a dreamer in denims named Jackson Pollock, tacking canvas to the floor and dribbling paint onto it. That was less than 20 years ago, but now Pollock has been dead nearly eight years, and the time has come for looking at Pollock in retrospect. This week Manhattan's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery provides the opportunity in a show of 150 Pollocks, drawn mainly from his widow's estate. That exhibition is backed by ten early works in the tiny Griffin Gallery...