Word: reflect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this arrangement is that there doubtless exist communities where it would be difficult to find three doctors who knew enough medicine, were sufficiently unbiased and were willing to take the time to examine the data carefully so that their decision would be an independent one and not merely reflect the view of the patient's physician...
...Vote. How little, muses Graves, does today's crude swearer reflect the high polish of his Chinese predecessor. On the other hand, he has also lost the Elizabethan faculty for fairly plastering his "opponent" with a custard-pie onslaught of laborious, invidious obscenities. Moslems still manage this very well, says Graves, but some of their English-speaking contemporaries have grown so dependent on the single epithet "bloody" (probable origin: "by 'r Lady") that they can hardly grasp the meaning of any word without its assistance. As instance, Author Graves quotes two Britons discussing whether any man should...
...Reflect Environment...
...reason is that artists in every age must reflect their environment; the fantastic, tense, bewildering civilization that we have today can be portrayed only in the abstract, he added...
...Patched Mirror. The Waste Land is easier on the ear than on the mind. It is like a kaleidoscopic mirror held up to the age-a patched mirror which at first seems to reflect only a heap of broken images, but which, to a longer view, blends them into a single bizarre picture, at once as strange and as familiar as one's own face (or one's own city) seen in a recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate...