Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare changes were tacked onto a bill providing a general 121% increase in Social Security benefits; they reflect the gut feeling of many Congressmen that large numbers of welfare recipients are either too lazy or too unmotivated to work. Their remedy: a big stick and a small carrot...
...Greek word for power (bia) and life (bios) reflect the essential interrelationship of power and life... We must not apologize for the existence of (our) group power, for we have been oppressed as a group, not as individuals...
...revealing gestures and speech patterns, he presents unconvincing, over-simplified generalizations about them. He substitutes dull and predictable dialogue for the illuminating conversations in his earlier books. And rather than satirizing his characters subtly and skillfully, he indulges in painfully obvious satire. (This heavy-handed treatment may, of course, reflect the pressing concern about America which motivated the book.) Similarly, rather than painting the comedy which is mingled with the tragic in human lives, he emphasizes tragedy almost to the point of bad melodrama...
Students' attitudes, as they have been gathered and analyzed by the survey team, reflect not only the feeling of deprivation of material resources, but also discouragement at the formalism and lack of practicality of many of their experiences. The learning process for too many of these in too many courses consists only of registration, memorization of notes, and the taking of examinations. Many students do not know the excitement that can come from learning itself, its process and its quest as an end in itself...
...seems only to reflect...