Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics and international relations. Hammarskjold, while writing Markings, rose from a brilliant economics student to become Secretary-General of the UN; yet he always subordinates external events to the moral doubts and problems that they engendered. Rather than describing, say, the circumstances of the Congo crisis, he prefers to reflect on the loneliness of power and the necessity of winning the right to be obeyed...
...also devised a three-legged stool whose height is equal to the focal length of a giant lens in the middle of the seat, a triangular wood box with three peephole lenses for viewing an object's change in size, and a merry-go-round of mirrors that reflect other mirrors and spy around corners. A set of colored Plexiglas paddles demonstrates the effect of combining primary colors. A different sort of distinction is taught with perception plaques: twelve pairs of highly similar pictures of the same object that inspire the child to match the identical drawings...
...regression is, of course, not the only issue; what is equally important is that adoption of the Constable proposal would reflect a willingness on the part of many Faculty members to dodge the knotty problems of General Education. The prospect of satisfying a commitment to General Education within the departmental structure is naturally appealing to a Faculty which, for the most part, has only reluctantly left the haven of the departments to teach...
...UNION DEAD, by Robert Lowell. These very personal poems reflect Lowell's old preoccupations-madness, genius, love -but the despair of his anguished early work has been replaced by a balance that adds a new dimension to Lowell's already considerable power...
...marine wildlife is replaced by photosynthetic plankton, the earth's population can keep feeding itself while doubling three more times, until it reaches about 3,000 billion in A.D. 2334. Five times as many people can be taken care of by putting up vast satellite mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the polar areas, warming the whole earth to equatorial productiveness...