Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrate endings and commemorate beginnings, it is important that we take a moment to reflect on a significant change at the College over the past year: randomization. The class of 1999 has just completed the first year of the randomized housing experiment, and we would like to point out the numerous flaws with the program...
...teachers. She says she knew she wanted to be a teacher when she was in kindergarten. Like every other CITE intern, she is strongly encouraged to keep a journal of her year at Vine Elementary--whose students have the highest rate of poverty among the city's schools--to reflect upon her worries, her triumphs and her progress...
Perhaps the most interesting painter to reflect this mood was John Frederick Peto (1854-1907), who specialized in eye-fooling, hypernaturalistic still life. In his work, the image of the martyred Lincoln recurs frequently, to the point of obsession, usually taking the form of a daguerreotype pinned to the board or pushed under a tape. Peto was praised for what Americans traditionally liked, skill and illusionistic power (How the hell did he do that?). But his deeper anxiety and the hints of an imperiled social order, reflected in the entropy of his objects, were lost on viewers...
Later American art contains elegies of a more personal kind, right down to the various works of art that reflect the grief of the AIDS epidemic. Among the most moving utterances of personal loss, though the most heavily coded, is Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), evoking his homosexual lover, who was killed at the start of World War I. By contrast, Andy Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962, illustrates America's yearning for the sainthood of remote, unknowable celebrity...
...replaced by large, blunt tips, or disabling pins could be inserted into rocket engines. Indeed, warheads could actually be removed from the missiles, under mutual inspection procedures. All of the steps could be reversed, but they would build in a safety valve of time, giving an opportunity to reflect...