Word: reflection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the time that Lucy Sprague Mitchell came to live in Manhattan in 1913, the superintendent of New York City's public schools could boast, "I like to pause at 11 o'clock in the morning and reflect that all over New York thousands of pupils are reading the same page of the same book." School desks were screwed firmly to the floor, and pupils were expected to sit quietly at them. Teachers were supposed to know their subjects well, and little else besides...
They didn't. The Progressive Party put it to a vote. Did Leader Wallace reflect the convictions of a majority of the party's bosses? No, the majority decided, he certainly...
...Gods! what a glorious morning it was! Just enough of enervating, voluptuous heat-and just enough breeze to fill the wings of the zephyrs-and just enough sunshine to reflect a sparkle in the eyes of beautiful women-and just enough people . . . on the pave to make one continued, ceaseless, devilish, provoking, delicious, glorious jam!" Thus ecstatically did young (22) Editor Walt Whitman of Manhattan's daily Aurora (circ. 5,000) sing the praises of New York in the spring of 1842. It was a notable newspaper era. Besides Whitman's Aurora, New York City boasted 15 other...
...Muddy-Brow. The most interesting thing about Miss Foley's book this time is that it seems to reflect an internal reorientation in the avant-garde literary world. Half of her stories are from the highbrow little magazines, but these are no more experimental or daring - and no better in quality - than the stories she picks from the slicks and fashion magazines. One reason: increasingly these days, magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle have been offering more than the little magazines can pay for the work of the more understandable in the avantgarde...
...Sadly we reflect upon an enormous retrogression in individual liberty and a denial of all human rights behind an impenetrable Iron Curtain in the satellite states where love-either of God or of man-is proscribed . . . It is for us, in these days of doubt and despair, to bear true and valiant -witness to the faith of our fathers-the faith delivered to the saints and transmitted to us through long generations of Christian forebears...