Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the mechanics of Burch's departure are accomplished, the G.O.P. can begin again to focus on the infinitely more meaningful task of finding a man who can reflect the realities of presidential success. One measure of that success, as the last three Presidents of the U.S.-Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson-have shown, is the ability to speak out more or less like a liberal and then, once elected, to act more or less like a conservative. With a leader like that, the Republican Party can once again become strong enough to enter a campaign with confidence...
Such actions reflect a prevalent opinion that the press is less concerned with impartial justice than with unthrottled crime coverage. It is an attitude that found support in the Warren Commission's report on the Kennedy assassination. "The promulgation of a code of professional conduct governing representatives of all news media," said the commission in summing up, "would be welcome evidence that the press had profited by the lesson of Dallas...
...legal profession admit that our own house is in need of cleaning," says James R. Thompson, assistant state's attorney for Cook County (Chicago), Laws prohibiting prejudicial pre-trial talk by court and law-enforcement officials are already on the books in 30 states, and these statutes reflect a 50-year-old canon of the American Bar Association. But the A.B.A. has never invoked its canon...
...combining 120 separate spectroscopic measurements, Dr. Strong and his assistants got a smooth curve showing how strongly the Venusian clouds reflect different wave lengths of solar infrared. This curve matched almost perfectly the reflection spectrum of an ice-crystal cloud observed in the laboratory. It was wholly different from the curves of dust, liquid carbon dioxide, liquid formaldehyde and the other noxious substances that are generally considered to be the content of Venusian clouds...
Unfortunately this reviewer cannot convey to you how extraordinarily well-written and alive Sartre's prose in The Words is. The book is the testament of a persevering genius, a writer who labors over his words until they reflect precisely his thoughts, which were clear before he began the process of writing. Now he has turned to the subject he cares most about--himself. The vitality and art with which he speaks of his life are extraordinary