Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laird's motive was to give the impression that any troop reduction would be "in the normal course of events" and would therefore reflect no credit on the Democrats. The Administration quickly denied that any such reduction was envisioned. The U.S., said Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, is still building up to its authorized level of 549,500, and "we intend to continue...
State and local politics reflect the impact no less than national politics. New Hampshire is tranquil, but talk about law and order is rampant. Democratic Governor John King, now running for the Senate, discerns a fine grey line between treason and dissent: "We have reached the point where we had better draw that line and say, 'You shall not pass.' " John Sears, Republican sheriff of Suffolk County (Boston) has been appointing Negro deputies, attempting to work with ghetto groups, and telling his men that they need not carry weapons at all times. His innovations have loosed a cascade...
...excellence does not He in gimmickry. It is in the nuanced truthfulness with which his stories reflect the foibles of society, or reveal the inner feelings that release cruelty and indifference. What chills most in The Academy, for example, is not the slowly revealed, slightly ho-hum fact that a boys' military school is actually a prison from which the students never graduate. Rather it is Ely's subtly conveyed perception that most parents of prospective students do not really want to know what they are letting their children...
...hold that there is no course--especially in the social sciences--which does not reflect a political bias. In most instances, this bias is masked (usually unintentionally), but not removed, through the introduction of uncritically accepted assumptions...
Naturally, the course reflects the political and intellectual perspectives of the course organizers, many of whom are members of Students for a Democratic Society and thus can safely be described as "radicals." Throughout the planning of the course this was a major consideration and we never doubted that the course would reflect our politics. Nor have we tried to alter this. There are two principal reasons for this...