Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to believe that these perspectives really just reflect what the business and political communities are. They are so selectively drawn and lopsided that they seem rather an effort to justify an academic orientation than an evaluation of two alternatives. Today, the other possibilities never open up because the business and political communities never penetrate, and even the legal and medical fields are increasingly resorts after disappointing academic performance. Most students who have heard of Edwin Land and Charles Percy know them as an optical scientist and chairman of the Republican Platform Committee, respectively. That the first has made major...
...relatively relaxed approach to scholarship, Oxford must tolerate the lazy professor and the student who fritters away most of his college years with endless parties. On the other hand, the Oxonian might well argue that to foster the imagination the university must allow its men leisure in which to reflect. If some people abuse the system, this must be accepted as inevitable. The university can only set the conditions for thought; it shouldn't try to organise scholarship in terms of output-efficiency...
Compulsory reading for the scholar, this third volume of The Papers is still delightful stuff for the general reader who prefers to have his Americana unbrainwashed by the biographer. He may even reflect that had Franklin got around to inventing the telephone, as well he might have, most of the fascinating odd bits would have disappeared without trace into the instrument...
...aesthete, as hypersensitive and anxious man; and in this mask he has engaged the attention of the great novelists of our century. For the creators of Swann (but also Bloch), of Leopold Bloom, Joseph K, as well as the recreator of the Biblical Joseph, the Jew has come to reflect increasingly the problems and pressures of Western man. If he is still (or more than ever) the Outsider, he knows that he has been cast in a role that symbolically identifies him with a world of Ishmaels. . . . In the Age of Anxiety, as Leslie Fiedler has reminded...
...language departments have been concerned that the tests now used fail to reflect the University's revised methods of language instruction...