Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maximum, figures Dr. Wilson, the ice shelf covers 10 million square miles of ocean, and its white surface reflects so much sunlight that the earth's heat input is reduced by 4%. The earth's general temperature falls a few critical degrees, and ice sheets begin to grow larger in the Northern Hemisphere too. The bigger they get, the more solar energy they reflect back into space, and the colder the earth becomes...
Wide-open Atmosphere. Thus everybody talks about the current sexual situation; but does everyone know what he's talking about? No new Kinsey report or Gallup poll can chart the most private-and most universal-of subjects. What people say does not necessarily reflect what they do, and what they do does not necessarily show how they feel about it. Yet out of an aggregate of words and actions, every society makes a statement about itself. Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles sums it up: "The atmosphere is wide open. There is more promiscuity, and it is taken...
...more galactic rumblings with a little poem (less disturbingly fastidious than her drawing) of an abandoned doll. Her subtle internal rhymings reveal a feeling for line that is also found in parts of Robert Dawson's overlong poem about German prisoners of war in Minnesota. Portions of this work reflect the same evocative power of Cummings' "I Sing of Olaf" ("You think . . . it makes you worthy of control to have control./But my heart is bigger than your heart/And I will outbleed you.") Yet it lacks the swiftness and compression for which his incident cries. We find in this issue...
Spiraling Cost. Approached by a giant horseshoe driveway bordered by artificial ponds, the mansion glistens by day with $1,000,000 worth of solar screens intended to reflect the sunlight and reduce heat, and by night is an explosion of brilliance, studded from top to bottom with dazzling fluorescent lights that are said to attract most of Monrovia's flies. Because of the uncertainty of the city's public utilities, the mansion has its own emergency power plant, water supply and sewage system. Such lavish accouterments plus some eyebrow-raising financing methods explain why the cost...
...that continent, many now identify strongly with Africa-though not to the point where they would repudiate their American loyalties-and take pride in the emergence of the new nations there. Some Negro women are affecting African-style hairdos; Negroes are decorating their homes with paintings and sculpture that reflect interest in African culture. There has been a decline in sales of "whitening" creams, hair straighteners and pomades, which for years found a big market among Negroes obsessed with ridding themselves of their racial identity...