Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council's work is its annual Institute. TIME gladly became a co-sponsor of the 1946-47 Institute because its editors believed that Clevelanders' efforts to inform themselves on world affairs paralleled TIME'S own effort to bring world news to its readers.* No forum can reflect every color of thought on every nation's problems and policies; nor can it give every shade of U.S. opinion. (The Cleveland Institute, for instance, omits specific treatment of such important, complex problems as Palestine and India.) The program...
Hollywood's Eyes. "As for the big films, the last thing in the world I would ask of them is that they should all be socially significant. They would be a colossal bore if they were. One can, however, reasonably ask that they should . . . reflect something of the reality of our time. ... I doubt if the individual destiny is quite so important and the public destiny quite so unimportant as Hollywood would make them appear...
...Reisner bequest will fill out Harvard's haphazard collection of detective stories, started by such mystery-loving professors as the late George Lyman Kittredge. History-conscious Harvard keeps them for research purposes, buys a half dozen new titles every year because they reflect "part of the American scene." It 'makes no attempt to circulate them widely. Says Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf uneasily: "We are a research library, and I should think that anyone who wanted a detective story would go to some other library...
Author Romains once explained that the grand strategy of Men of Good Will was to "reflect a whole generation." That it does, as faithfully, as arbitrarily and almost as indiscriminately as a mirror set up in a public square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years...
...miss method of Council contact with the student body at large was condemned as being inadequate, while the "grievance committee" idea received nearly as large an affirmative vote. If the Council has not previously considered this tenuousness of contact as a major problem, it would probably do well to reflect on the absolute weight of the majority...