Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should they think (a moral one)? In order to get at both, it is first necessary to agree on what thinking itself is-what thought means-and that is no quick step. Every period in history has had to deal with at least two main definitions of thought, which mirror the prevailing philosophies of that particular time and are usually in opposition. Moreover, these contending schools change from age to age. On a philosophical level, thought cannot know itself because it cannot step outside itself. Nor is it an activity that can be understood by what it produces (art, science...
Govorukhin, who is known for his television productions of literary classics, discovered that the lush banks of the Dnieper were a mirror of the Mississippi valley. Casting Tom and Huck, however, took months. In the book, Tom and Huck are adolescents, but Govorukhin decided to use younger boys because, he felt, "we live in an era of age acceleration. Today's twelve-and 14-year-olds are thinking about discos and sports rather than playing pirates and Indians...
...pace led some observers of the diplomatic community to wonder if the Secretary's health and judgment in the crucial Falkland Islands negotiations could withstand the stress of such globe-hopping. The London press thought not. Noting Haig's drawn, tired features after one meeting, the Daily Mirror trumpeted, HOW MUCH MORE CAN HAIG'S HEART STAND? Haig's heart is not the only questionable factor. Virtually all of the thousands of the body's neural, hormonal and metabolic processes are also taxed in global jet travel...
...often, and rightly, regarded as a mirror of the social realities of the present. It also serves as a kind of time machine for backtracking into social history...
...second game threatened to mirror the first Friedman quickly got on base in the first with an opposite field single, but them just as quickly killed it by trying to steal and failing...