Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great charm and enduring value of the pieces assembled are that they reflect a culture that drew no distinction between major and minor arts. Anything from a horse bit to a box top was seen as an object of beauty, while each bronze affirmed in subtle ways the flavor of its region. Where Sparta reigned, simplicity and self-discipline are powerfully reflected in the lancet-eyed Laconian warrior whose body and thoughts alike are swathed in a foreboding cloak...
...relationship with death and all its trappings. Mythology and symbolism are planted in conspicuous places for those readers who relish those forms of mental exercise, and there is enough sexual activity to maintain interest through the long, cold tussles with radical existential philosophy. Once again onanism is used to reflect the spiritual isolation of the age, and sodomy is seen as an important portal to self-awareness...
BORODIN: PRINCE IGOR (3 LPs; Angel). A nation's music can reflect a nation's soul, and Igor performs an exposé of Mother Russia's near-seduction by terrifying but awfully stylish barbarians from the East. Igor, as a P.O.W., must resist the charms of the Khan's slave girls singing Borodin's most popular themes, The Polovtsian Dances, not to mention a suave invitation from the Khan to join up and "together feed on the blood of our enemies." Boris Christoff sings two major roles boomingly: the comparatively noble Khan Konchak...
Five Minutes a Year. A prime reason for Goodyear's historic success has been innovation-or, as Chairman Russell DeYoung puts it, "You can reflect on past glories for five minutes each year, then forget it." Goodyear's firsts include the rayon cord tire in 1938, the nylon cord in 1947 and the polyester cord in 1962. Last week the company's latest creation was introduced: a polyester and fiber-glass tire, which will be sold as a replacement for original equipment tires and is said by the company to have twice their lifetime. More expensive than...
...does, that "the universe starts from some particular point and moves in a definite direction, or that man is contributing to that movement." The universe, he says, is the brute force of nature. "It has no direction or purpose. Direction and purpose derive from men who reflect upon what they have been doing and what they want to attain...