Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High time-since the now-standing immigration law is an abomination, depending as it does on "a national origins" quota system created in 1924. It was designed to reflect the U.S. population makeup as of 1920 and heavily favored North European nations, while offering only the stingiest quotas to other parts of the world. Despite all the hysterical criticism that comes its way, the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 actually liberalized the quota system, particularly for Orientals...
...most effective instruments of Communist subversion remains the front organization. In McCarthy's heyday Communist terminology was tossed about too carelessly, and in many quarters today words and realities such as "infiltration" no longer seem entirely credible. Yet the leading fronts still reflect the reality and breadth of the Communist subversive effort. They range from pacifist groups such as the World Peace Council (headquartered in Prague) and the International Institute of Peace (Vienna) to various youth and professional outfits such as the International Union of Students and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (Prague and Brussels). Most of these...
...that he intends to maintain VGA's objectivity, reporting the bad as well as the good side of the news about the U.S. Johnson says he wants the same thing, though it can be argued that the Voice of America should not go out of its way to reflect the criticism of U.S. policies so regularly published in many newspapers and magazines. "Our main weapon is our freedom to make our own mistakes and solve our own problems out in the open," says Chancellor. "We can't be Buddha-like...
Oscar Levant's public image, if he still has one, is a blend of an exhibitionistic hypochondriac, an acerb wit, and a concert pianist who knows far more about music than he ever applied to the keys. All these Levantine facets faithfully reflect the man; or, to put it another way, he reflects them. The distinction is academic. After a lifetime largely devoted to his own self-construction, Levant himself probably cannot draw the line between the real Oscar and the one he invented. This book comes as close to defining it as its author will ever...
...shifted from one job to another to test that potential. The best in the black book eventually rise to the "Greenbrier Group," a select party of executives who are invited every three years to a top-secret meeting in Greenbrier, W. Va., where they study G.M.'s past, reflect upon its present and try to chart its future...