Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Foreman, The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Guns of Navarone got out of hand, and although they were blazingly successful, failed to deliver his central message: "I feel that all we won in the last war was the license to have another. I am trying to reflect the bitterness and disappointment my generation feels. There's a larger theme, that any war, big or little, just or unjust, always degrades the victors equally with the vanquished, and that any war always carries the seeds of another. The only way to change all this is somehow...
...reflect this in The Petty Demon, Sologub torments Peredonov with a symbol of his own and the world's baseness, embodied in the shifting form of a bogy-like hallucination called a nedotykomka-"a person one can't touch." At first Peredonov tries to catch and destroy the nedotykomka. But his rage to destroy it-like all petty human rage and resentment, according to Sologub-is part of the dark inheritance from Cain. It becomes a rage to destroy everything. Peredonov is doomed...
Such efforts to circumvent the court's decision seem to reflect the will of the public. Last week a Gallup poll indicated that 79% of those questioned in a nationwide survey favor the continuation of religious observances in the public schools...
...artist is generally supposed to reflect his time, but the old saw does not apply to the start of the 15th century. At that time, the Hundred Years' War was still raging, and Europe had yet to recover from the ravages of the plague. The Holy Roman Empire was hardly still an empire, and the church was grievously split between a Pope in Rome and another at Avignon. It was, in short, a time of disunity and violence-the very opposite of much...
WORRY ON DOLLAR EASING IN EUROPE, said the New York Times one morning last week. EUROPE'S CONFIDENCE IN DOLLAR CONTINUES FADING, countered the New York Herald Tribune the same day. These conflicting headlines reflect a situation that is frequently hard to fathom, but that matters more and more. At a time when the U.S. has to worry about its own place in international economic competition, the prejudices of informed opinion abroad are a factor to reckon with. Last week TIME correspondents took their own survey of top businessmen and economists from London to Tokyo...