Lookback: the veil of the past
From 2016: I remember quite a lot about my ten-year-old self and the town in which I lived"but not much about the rest of the world. Just the other day I looked up Wikipedia's timeline of events in 1966, thinking that I might find a bit of fodder for a Wall Street Journal column about the fiftieth anniversary of something or other. It was, not surprisingly, an eventful year, but I was struck most forcibly by ho…