I find in their rhetoric an alternate tradition with a pedigree reaching far back into the more distant past, one emphasizing static retrospection and categorical morality.
The retrospection of old age toward the past always assumes a certain discontinuity between old age and youth.
Such passages of critical retrospection are often missing in similar memoirs.
There was no retrospection, and payments for children were deducted only from state benefits for children.
Fictional retrospection and memorial retrospection were not the same.
Encompassing tests pitting personal expectations against personal retrospections are inconclusive, so therefore we caution that additional inquiry is in order.
They retain the quality of eyewitness accounts, but they assume a distance between event and text that can be bridged only by retrospection.
However, the short-run impact of the fourth type (national retrospections) is not significant.
