Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some officials argue, the U.S. might adopt the same attitude in evaluating the signs of reduced military activity in the South. The North Vietnamese pullback could merely reflect the impact of recent allied military successes, but the fact remains that Hanoi has never before withdrawn troops on so large a scale. Why not, ask some officials, interpret this move as a signal that Hanoi is attempting to offer reciprocity for a bombing pause? If this is not a signal, they ask further, what...
Before swinging into the last lap of his campaign, Hubert Humphrey paused to reflect on what had gone wrong, what part his own personality had played in his troubles and how he still hopes to govern the U.S. During an interview with Humphrey in Washington, TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey found him newly self-confident, by turns introspective and expansive, self-pitying and resolutely cheery. Humphrey naturally stressed his role as the underdog, tended to blame outside factors for his difficulties, and spoke with such unwarranted optimism that his words occasionally took on an aura of unreality. Nonetheless, they mirror Humphrey...
Kahn's way of expressing the indescribable was not even to suggest it, but rather to provide a place for people to reflect. The monument consists of seven heavy, translucent glass piers, each 10 ft. square and 11 ft. high. They will be placed on a 66-ft.-square granite pedestal designed to be built in Manhattan's Battery Park. The New York Parks Department has approved the plan in principle. When installed, the monument will allow visitors to stroll among the piers; the central pier will be open on one side and serve as a small chapel...
...their relationship with the Eastern European Communist countries within their sphere of influence. It is sotsialisticheskoe sodruzhestvo, which, translated into English, has a reassuring and almost beneficent ring: Socialist Commonwealth. Since the invasion of Czechoslovakia, however, the term has acquired a new and ominous meaning. It has come to reflect a departure in Soviet policy that some people suggest should be called the Brezhnev Doctrine, after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, whose brutal and brusque attitude toward the Czechoslovak leaders has made him a symbol of the Soviet Union's belligerent mood...
...probes the darker, unexplored passageways of American political life. But Mailer - Eastern Seaboard exotic, alienated artist, New York practitioner of improvisational cinema - is strangely in touch with heartland America this election year. His own surprisingly shifting views of civil rights and Negroes, of WASPS and Nixon seem to reflect the national mood...