Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finest of the new accessions are two small linden-wood legionaries of death, carved in the mid-sixteenth century. They reflect the preoccupation with death then prevalent and resemble the skeletal figures in Holbein's Dance of Death, done earlier in the same century. With deft control of the wood, the craftsman of the Busch-Reisinger pieces grimly records the grotesque expressions on the legionaries' faces and the torn flesh as it hangs limply from their skeletons...
...needs a writer with time to generalize and reflect; an editor with the knowledge to guide and moderate. The story that finally went to press, written by Robert...
Behind the Fed's new and heartening figures lay years of careful work in sharpening its sampling techniques to reflect both the 1954 and 1957 census of busi ness, plus a wealth of fresh new information on what is really going on in the U.S. economy...
About the turn of the century, a popular song among Japanese students had a refrain that ran "dekansho, dekansho." It was shorthand for "Descartes, Kant, Schopenhauer." In the early 1950s, the hit refrain was "chiiku dansu" i.e., dancing "cheek to cheek." In symbolic miniature, the two songs reflect two staggering cultural encounters between Japan and the West. Clam-shut to the outside world for centuries, Japan was pried open by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854 and avidly, if erratically, soaked up Western thought and technology. In 1945, the vanquished paid the victors the sincere, if at times embarrassing, flattery...
Time magazine attributed the College's success to "the unpredictable luck of an especially impressive batch of aspiring seniors." It did discern a trend, however, and admitted that the record number of winners "also seemed to reflect the rising standards in the nation's applicant-besieged prestige colleges...