The Year in Retrospect

Perhaps the greatest disadvantage faced by the writer of this department is that of meeting a deadline for the editor, a month before publication of each issue.  This is bad for at least two reasons.  First, the news is often old and well-discussed before it appears in Current Comments and the comments tend to be not so current.  Secondly, developments in the news can come so suddenly that new news pushes the old from its seemingly important place.  For example, the writer waited some time...