Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment when Soviet monsters were grinding out the sparks of freedom in mutilated Hungary, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was smilingly shaking hands with the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. at a celebration marking the anniversary of another occasion of Soviet brutality. Does that reflect favorably on the wisdom and judgment of a member of our most august and revered governmental institution...
...While all nine of the stories were originally written in Hebrew, only three of the authors are sabras*, born in Palestine and accustomed to the language from infancy. The others, coming as immigrants, had to learn vernacular Hebrew at ages ranging from 19 to 33. Most of the stories reflect the authors' predominantly European culture, and echoes of Voltaire, De Maupassant, James Joyce and Sholom Aleichem sound more clearly than do the wild notes of Oriental imagery or the deep rhythms of the Old Testament...
...reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship. But in another sense, the U.S. had earned the new regard by its own conduct. In time of crisis and threat of World War III, President Eisenhower had cast U.S. policy in a role to reflect the U.S.'s basic character-its insistence on justice, its desire for friendship, and its hatred of aggression and brutality...
...weight of evidence is that U.S. authors have indeed changed their approach to the businessman, and that their novels reflect the changing times. Author-Critic John Chamberlain, who eight years ago wrote in FORTUNE that novelists "are not only antibusiness; they are also anti-fecundity and anti-life," now feels that "the businessman has been made much more human...
...probable character of an International Center, Mason said, would reflect the personality and ideas of whoever might be appointed its director. "At any rate, the chairman of the interdepartmental committee would therefore require great coodinating ability in addition to scholarly achievement," he said...