Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retrospect, two very indicative events have taken place at Harvard in the last month. The Minister of Education of a small foreign country with whom I discussed them recently, put the situation very well when he said, "Harvard has succeeded in attracting many 'learned' professors, but there seems to be a paucity of 'educated' ones.' E. A. Layne...
...Audiences were sparse, musically illiterate and seemingly permeated to the core by a strong helping of Yankee reserve. Today, however, Boston is emerging as one of the major capitals of the whit rock world (along with London, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles) and it is clear in retrospect that the notorious apathy and lack of interest displayed by Boston crowds in earlier years was merely a function of the fact that three were just no congenial rock dance-halls around. Which is another way of saying that the Boston Tea Party is doing for Boston what the Fillmore...
...retrospect, Davies shows no bitterness. He recalls with astonishment that after firing him Dulles telephoned to offer the use of his name as a reference. "What could I say?" asks Davies. "It was so bizarre." As Davies sees it, both he and Dulles were victims of the times. "Getting rid of me was his modus operandi with Congress," he says. "It made it easier for him to work with them. The Congress is not so naive now. It has learned to live with dissension on foreign affairs." He adds: "The State Department is catching up with the times in personnel...
Such episodes, often ridiculous in retrospect, are inevitable in any large organization, but Harvard has always made a virtue of the decentralization that tends to create them. It may be hard to draw a line between the academic de- centralization which the Wilson Committee, following Harvard tradition, finds beneficial and the increase in central administration for community affairs which it suggests, but their conclusion appears inevitable...
...retrospect, the McCarthy campaign's greatest success might have been to give many liberals the political experience necessary to fight successful later battles. These are no longer the innocent amateurs who tried to take control of the state delegations to the national convention, screaming foul when they were defeated...