Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climbs. Yet for all their indiscriminate bustle, the big cities of the U.S. have developed distinct personalities of their own, with much deeper differences than a palm tree or a peep show might suggest. Of them all, five cities, spread from coast to coast and north to south, reflect both the endless variety of metropolitan America and the ties that bind the cities of the U.S. together, for better or for worse, in their common problems and strivings...
...national taste, a woman of contrasts whose feet are planted firmly in the subway while her tiara punches the clouds. On the shore of Lake Michigan stands big-shouldered Chicago, a gambling man, a gandy dancer, a latter-day John Bunyan whose self-conscious gazes into his mirror reflect the pride and simplicity of the U.S. heartland. There is intellectual Boston, a lady of quality with whalebone traditions, who has hitched up her skirt and gone to work without losing her manners, keeping her balance with an infusion of wild Irish blood into her Yankee veins. In the bayous...
...dogs (barred in the project). Many of them rarely see their fathers; others see too much of them because the men are jobless. Society has a way of dealing with boys like Eric. Sooner or later, they take an IQ test, get labeled "stupid." and quit school. The tests reflect "cultural" knowledge-things like dogs, crayons and fathers...
...more yeas the difficulties and limitations inherent in formally negotiating a quid pro quo have been increasingly recognized. Actions speak louder than words. A promised quid pro quo is not worth as much as a delivered one. Agreements are not likely to be durable anyway unless they reflect the interests of both sides and it may be easier for each both sides and it may be easier for each side to exercise restraint than to promise to do so. These ideas have been developed in the discussions of tacit bargaining by Professor Schelling and extensively in the writings of Professor...
...expounds an unproven political ideology. He will attack the Kennedy Administration at a time when the president's popularity is extremely high; he will run on foreign issues in a domestic race, and his notoriety has been more to his disfavor than to his credit. His defeat will reflect severely on the right-wing whose banner he carries...