Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible meaning of Negro Americans to all white Christians, Historian Arnold J. Toynbee wrote (in his monumental work-in-progress, A Study of History): "The Negro appears to be answering our tremendous challenge with a religious response which may prove in the event, when it can be seen in retrospect, to bear comparison with the ancient Oriental's response to the challenge from his Roman masters. . . . Opening a simple and impressionable mind to the Gospels, he has divined the true nature of Jesus' mission. He has understood that this was a prophet who came into the world...
...retrospect, Ambassador Ala seemed U.N.'s first hero for his courageous fight last spring. But Gavam had won the other half of Persia's battle by repressive measures against the Tudeh Party. First Gavam broke last July's bloody strike of Tudeh-led Abadan oil workers. In mid-October, he kicked three Tudeh men out of his Cabinet, then muzzled the Tudeh press. Result : an independent, but not a very democratic, Persia...
Skimmed off the top of the froth, "Margie" is another throwback to the days of the flapper, raccoon coat and Stutz Bearcat. Told in easy retrospect, "Margie" is as pleasant as on evening over the family album, and as awkward as a picture of Mother conducting a high-school debate...
...these slight novels of his nonage there is little promise of Shaw's latter-day achievements (Candida, Pygmalion, over 40 other plays). Yet, in retrospect, they show horizonal flashes of the approaching storm-the brightest literary lifetime...
...that Conant is wholly occupied with Harvard's adjustment-in science, international studies, social relations and citizenship-to the Atomic Age, some of his former Washington associates wonder if that is the most useful spot for him. In retrospect they are more than ever impressed with his facility for learning "through the pores," for quickly grasping human as well as scientific problems-and they are quietly talking about Conant's presidential potentialities. Nobody has asked Jim Conant what he thinks, but at 53 he still has a zest for adventure...