Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schmidt all work too hard at aping this stereotype. Striving to be warbling Everymen, they fail to make their characterizations personal enough to be individually endearing. Collectively, they do not more than communicate a state of mind pervasive among males of a specific period and class; in a retrospect, their renditions coalesce into a lively blur...
...retrospect, Schorr's career involved him directly in more controversies than most journalists. Although he always considered himself a a reporter, one who tells people the news but does not himself make it, somehow he frequently managed to become news himself...
Dispatches reprints the reports that Herr sent home from the war, eyewitness accounts of combat that are even more scarifying in retrospect than they seemed at the time. But Herr blends these pieces with meditations on Viet Nam that began in earnest when his look at the shooting was over. For Herr came to realize that Viet Nam was the most intense experience life was ever likely to offer him. Hating the idea of becoming a combat freak, a reporter who needed a war somewhere in order to function, he also recognized the pain that he and fellow correspondents felt...
...retrospect Van Vleck admits he may have been "too cautious." Congratulatory telegrams poured in throughout the day, and buried in the pile of wires was the official acknowledgement of the Swedish Academy. He was, indeed, a Nobel laureate...
...rights campaign and his unexpectedly sweeping proposals for arms cuts, which Vance carried to Moscow in March. Since Carter's concepts would have required the Russians to give up existing (albeit aging) systems while the U.S. merely sacrificed weapons on the drawing board, it was not surprising-in retrospect-that Brezhnev thundered an unequivocal nyet (TIME, April...