Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic complaint against opera is that it does not reflect reality, that "people do not converse in such a way"-that in real life, people do not sing. As a matter of fact, they sing more often than they recite Shakespearean verse or the kind of phony political speeches with which they harangue each other in the supposedly real theater of Arthur Miller. Of course people do not speak in asides ("I'll have her yet!"), which were accepted on the stage for decades, nor in a Joycean stream of consciousness, which is accepted today. People do not mumble...
...That such an approach should be taken by Arrupe, a learned Basque with a reputation for liberality, produced more puzzlement than anything else. At a press panel, American Theologian John J. King bluntly called Arrupe's summons to crusade "unfortunate." Other Jesuits noted that Arrupe did not reflect a consensus of the society. "I think his speech was naive," said one Jesuit professor in Rome. "It was a speech by a man who doesn't understand the situation. His language was that of the old Roman papal bulls, which talked about going out under the banner of Christ...
Thus, stuck away in the country hollows, in old villages around which suburbs have grown, in city slums that look like grey blurs from expressways and fast commuter trains, the poor are scarcely visible. Society sees them mostly through the tabloid stories that reflect their roaring crime rate. For, as Henry Fielding put it 200 years ago, "the sufferings of the poor are less known than their misdeeds...
Would the King's new choice be any more successful than his others? Not if the royal nemesis could do anything to foil him. Calling for a gigantic convocation of his demonstration-happy followers in Salonika, canny old George Papandreou declaimed: "Governments and Parliaments must reflect the will of the people, and neither this government nor Parliament does that. But the people's will shall win, and the people will wipe this government out of existence." In downtown Athens, 10,000 left-wing union members rallied at a theater and demanded Papandreou's return or immediate elections...
Enjoyable Surroundings. Broadway-Hale's stores and merchandise-"not the highest fashion, but in good taste " says Carter-reflect the character of the suburbs, where the company does 80% of its business. There are few cut-rate prices, but customers get what Carter likes to call "an atmosphere of quality"-surroundings carefully calculated to make the process of shopping smoother and more enjoyable...