Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that afternoon, Karandas Chandrakrishma, Instructor in Indian Studies, emerged from his office in Weld Hall and paused teetering on the steps of that noble pile to button his raincoat. It was an action which caused in him a troble grief. First, because it gave him time to reflect, as he always did, that the University had given Ali Ahmed, graduate student in Indian Studies, an office in Boyiston Hall, and him, Chadrakrisha himself, only a garret in Weld. Second, because it reminded him that he was wearing a cheap American raincoat. Finally, because it urged upon his flickering consciousness...
...rolling or casting). Some of the fixing and rigging sessions took place at meetings of a New York outfit called the Open Die Forging Institute, according to the indictment, and at these meetings the institute's secretary was excused, "with the result that the minutes did not reflect such discussions." The conspiracy led to artificially high prices on forgings sold to the Navy, the Army and certain private firms...
...Mushroom & the Pearl. Each country has a name for its hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
...point out that deficits in the administrative budget nonetheless have a damaging psychological effect-especially abroad. Says Columbia University's Professor Raymond J. Saulnier, former chairman of Dwight Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers: "Deficits tend to undermine confidence in the value of the dollar, which can reflect itself in disinvestment in U.S. capital and in a gold outflow." As if to underscore the point, the Federal Reserve reported that the U.S. last week lost $40 million in gold, reducing the nation's reserves to $16.5 billion-the lowest level since August...
...expansive warmth and enthusiasm of Maurice Eisenberg reflect his conception of the real function of music. Mr. Eisenberg does not talk in terms of form or period--these he calls only the "vocabulary" of music--, nor does he dwell on esthetic doctrine. His concern is for the expressive power of the art which he describes radiantly as "the most potent means of communication between...