Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When one considers the past track season in retrospect, it becomes more and more apparent that Crimson coach Bill McCurdy's retaining his effervescent joviality at all times was either a heroic job of self-control, or complete resignation to the inevitable...
Last month, after finishing Russia, Gunther plunged into a quick biography of Albert Lasker, one of the "small" books that "I play with my left hand" (others: Roosevelt in Retrospect, The Riddle of MacArthur). After the 1960 election, he intends to write his long-planned companion to Inside U.S.A., a book on U.S. politics. He will also edit Doubleday's ambitious Mainstream of Modern World History series. He is making notes for an autobiographical book on the people and events he has covered, and is pondering a biography of his longtime friend Sinclair Lewis. Next year he plans...
...with which Author Durrell one day saw his girls pelt the police. During this "operatic phase" of the disturbances, Durrell took the post of press adviser to the governor. He still hoped that neither British hotheads ("Squeeeze the Cyps") nor Cypriot hotheads ("The British must go") would prevail. In retrospect, he believes that had Britain granted the Cypriots the right to vote on enosis, even in 20 years' time, tragedy might have been averted. Early British inflexibility, he argues, turned Coke bottles into grenades...
...decision was made in the name of pure science: pressures were heavy on the White House to dissociate the satellite program from weaponry so the world's neutralists would not be offended. In retrospect, giving jurisdiction of the satellite programs to the service that knew least about it was a blunder-and it was protested by Medaris, Von Braun & Co. But the Huntsville team had some consolation: it did have a 1955 go-ahead on the Jupiter intermediate-range missile...
...sort to alienate the Gold Coast crowd. He made occasional slighting references to Society in his letters: "Last week I dined at the Quincys', the Amorys' & the Thayers', three as high-life places as are to be found in blue-blooded, blue stockinged, bean eating Boston." And in retrospect he wrote: "Once upon a time when I was in Cambridge I had serious thoughts of marrying a Boston girl and settling down in the Back Bay to spend the rest of my days. Such was the influence of four years of that... kind of association I am complaining about...