He could accept that , yes , his economic forecasts of yesteryear may have been too rosy ; that he , like everybody else , failed to anticipate the banking collapse ; that deregulation and the credit glut went too far .
In recent years , chumash revivalists have built and paddled plank canoes into the sea , developed a linguistic textbook and learned to perform the music and dancing of yesteryear .
Where mr tarantino sees a solidarity with the victims of the past , others might see a contemporary white american eager to believe that , given the opportunity , other peoples of yesteryear would have behaved as shabbily as his own people did .