Word: reflecter
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These differences reflect a truism: patriotism has become more individualistic as U.S. society has grown more complex. The U.S. people, in their modern, more urban way of life, are better educated, more aware of the world and more sophisticated than their forebears. For the past decade, the young have grown up in an era of selfcriticism, and have learned to question American assumptions. They have also learned an idealism that often lacks realism-no tably an awareness that power and politics are inescapable facts of international life. Their definition of patriotism must be worked out in the context...
Yale's action reflects a widespread dissatisfaction over trying to apply numbers, or letters with pluses and minuses, to something as inexact as student performance. Explained Professor William Kessen, chairman of the committee that recommended the changes: "Whether a man gets a 72 or a 74 just doesn't reflect his performance, his knowledge, or anything." The new system, however, presents Yale students with one potential problem: in competing for entrance to graduate schools, they will have neither class rankings, nor point averages to present, will have to depend heavily on faculty recommendations and interviews...
...Aries among the best-known scenes of France. But neither town as yet has raised a monument to the artist who made them famous. This oversight is now being corrected by Los Angeles Sculptor William Earl Singer, 57, who has cast a large head of Van Gogh, designed to reflect varying emotions as the sun passes over it, and has offered the sculpture as a gift, to be set up in a public place in Aries...
...respect are the passions that presently involve many of us in this community. Correspondingly, this letter is intended to tell you as an individual that henceforth any interference with an individual's rights of movement will be viewed as a matter of extreme gravity. Subsequent disciplinary action would reflect the University's judgment that your conduct had been disruptive of its basic procedures and freedoms, irrespective of whatever legal penalties might also be hazarded by your conduct for violation of the laws of the land. Contrary to what has some-times been argued, this is not double jeopardy...
...assumed by a testifying defendant. In the first place, the court noted, the nature of the previous conviction is important. Eager prosecutors often try to drag in everything on the record. In the future, said the court, it might be well to restrict previous crimes mentioned to those "which reflect adversely on a man's honesty and integrity." Acts of violence, the opinion continued, do not seem to have much to do with truth-telling, while "acts of deceit, fraud, cheating and stealing" generally...