Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultures debate of nearly a generation ago is all but forgotten. The sharp exchanges between the bowlered ranks of C.P. Snow, the novelist who gave contemporary fiction the beautiful technocrat, and the disciples of Literary Critic F.R. Leavis now seem like an intellectual border dispute. In retrospect it was not much of a contest. The powers of technology and social engineering either bypassed or rolled over their academic challengers. Today many defenders of the humanities even drop terms like the uncertainty principle and entropy as loose literary metaphors...
...into Iran. America's decision to depend on the Shah as its surrogate policeman in the Persian Gulf was perceived as even more crucial in the aftermath of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, when Iran disregarded the boycott and continued to sell vital petroleum to the West. In retrospect, one top U.S. policymaker of that period reflects: "We let the arms sales get out of control, and we failed to press the Shah to establish the roots of democratic institutions...
...sure, there were problems within these Projects. Much of the output was undistinguished; many Theatre Project productions seem in retrospect one-dimensional, too self-consciously didactic. And conflicts, perhaps inevitable, arose between artistic purpose and political pressures. The political content of the Theatre Project drew the wrath of Congressional critics and ultimately contributed, at least in part, to the withdrawal of Congressional funding in 1939. Nor were pressures only external: despite the "uncensored" mandate, productions thought too controversial were occasionally postponed. By 1938, Welles and Houseman had left the Project in just such a dispute...
...retrospect I shouldn't have been so sure. Neither Johnnie nor the others made any attempt to help the two men. Afterward they told me not only were they chiefly concerned with getting themselves down safely, but if the two men weren't ready to help themselves, why should they waste any of their valuable energy on two immobile men. I like to think they would have helped me regardless. As it was I can probably be thankful I was alone and a girl and had made it across the stream...
...applaud the student association's resolution, and hope that in retrospect it will mark a turning point in the fight to rename the Engelhard Library...