Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circles, Botero depicts gentle impossibilities. He balloons his figures to look like anthropomorphic Latin American pottery. His subjects turn into jugs with ears, stylized piñatas bursting with human presence. With forceful immediacy, as if cartooning from a reproduction of a Renaissance fresco, his simplified images reflect the innocent expressionism of old Spanish colonial art and the sunlit geometries of its architecture...
ECCE HOMO by George Grosz. Grove Press. $15. Germany's savage satirist, who died in 1959, represented by some of his finest thrusts at pomposity and obtuseness. The drawings and water-colors done in the between-wars period reflect Grosz's deep pessimism as he watched the wavering fall of the Weimar Republic, with Hitler waiting in the wings of history. "Once you have glimpsed these corrosive portraits, these street and bedroom scenes," writes Author Henry Miller in a foreword, "you will never forget them...
...statistics may not reflect it so promptly; for a time, they may actually rise, for one of the effects of stepped-up education on the subject may well be a lifting of taboos, hence more truthful death certificates. But it is certain that in the future the "cry for help" will be far better heard and far more sympathetically attended to than it has ever been...
They simply glide through an honors program without alternatives, suspecting that this is necessary for their graduate school applications, and wasting both their tutor's and their time in a rather fruitless search for a "topic" which often has little meaning for either. Admittedly, this may reflect on the tutor as much as the student, but casting blame hardly resolves the condition...
...seat in the U.S. Senate. The fact that this second sweep was won with large pluralities had led many Massachusetts Republicans to hope that the usually Democratic Irish and Italian voters had elected the Republican candidates mainly because they were Republicans. They felt that the victory did not reflect ethnic voting or a protest against poor candidates offered by the Democratic party. Heightening this belief was the knowledge that the Democratic candidates for governor and senator were energetic, able, good men. If these hopes were true then the Republican party in Massachusetts was at the beginning of a proud...