Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once in a while, the guts are tacitly tolerated by the school to preserve the eligibility of dim-witted athletes. Many more, however, simply reflect the good intentions of such kindly professors as Stanford Political Scientist James T. Watkins IV, who rarely awards anything less than an A on the lovable notion that "There is too much tension in the university-I don't want to add to the general insecurity and unhappiness of the community...
...monologues between the songs--raps, he calls them--reflect both his warmth and his tensions. He has the rare ability to babble a stream of consciousness which is meaningful to his audience. He is a Jean Shepard, with none of Shepard's cynicism...
...very "weakening" of the dollar in conventional balance of payments terms may have been a necessary part of the process by which its underlying strength has gradually been revealed. The strength of the dollar is not to be measured by conventional tests. The moves by speculators do not reflect a real threat to the dollar. What they reflect is only a continuing Treasury policy that sets a floor to the price of gold-that $35 an ounce is a tactical tribute to tradition-and so permits risk-free speculation against currencies...
...shift in reviewers. Some of the most perceptive writers - Sociologists Lewis Coser and Nathan Glazer, Economist Oscar Gass - are no longer contributing to the Review. Space is now filled by such New Left Partisans as Paul Goodman, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Andrew Kopkind and Chomsky, who reflect the opinions of the Review's principal founder, Jason Epstein, and its editor, Robert Silvers. "I wanted to write critical reviews," says Coser, a professor of sociology at Brandeis, "not the kind of demolition jobs they asked for. They kept telling me to sharpen the knife more." Like the Review, Coser...
...having acquired companies in fields as diverse as aerospace (Garrett Corp.), trucking (Mack) and banking (Arizona Bancorporation), recently jested in advertisements that "we've thought of calling ourselves Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporation." While Signal does, in fact, plan to take on a new name that will better reflect its conglomerate status, that tongue twister will never do-if only because the company would have to keep changing its letterheads. Last week, for instance, it might have become "Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporationallischalmers...