Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could discover," he wrote in a recent issue of London's New Statesman and Nation, "I suffered no ill effects from reading [Bevin] after lunch instead of with my breakfast. Sobered by this discovery, I began to reflect on the philosophy of 'news.' News coverage in our popular press is based on the principle that every paper every day must excel all its rivals in not 'missing' the latest news available ... The definitions of 'hot news' and 'news value' are largely an Anglo-Saxon convention...
...statue of Ludwig van Beethoven leading an orchestra (done in 1906) was naked as a winter oak. The nudes of those early years were realistically proportioned, often graceful. But Vigeland's conception of the human figure changed over the decades, and his work came more & more to reflect his new (and increasingly stereotyped) ideal-thick-bodied women of action and bull-necked men. Among the samples in Frogner Park: a male tossing a female over his shoulders; a male carrying off a female while she, with one leg over his shoulder and another around his chest, pulls his hair...
What's more, the spirit between the two clubs themselves could hardly be said to reflect the highest ideals of Happy Chandler. Admittedly the Braves lacked discretion when they publicly announced that they would far sooner play with those nice boys from Cleveland or New York with the 70,000 seating capacities. But the Red Sex rebuttal expressing deep sorrow that Jeff Heath had broken only his leg when it might so easily have been his neck bordered on the boorish...
...reflected nothing of the scholarly complexity of Chariot's mind, it did reflect the simplicity of his life, which centers about two poles: his work and his wife and four children. Chariot's wife, Zohmah, is a trim, dark lady who was raised in Brigham City, Utah, and abandoned the name of Dorothy Day after getting acquainted with Mexico as an art student. "When I married Jean," she confesses, "I thought 'I'm going to be an intellectual,' but instead he's taught me to read detective stories...
...most admires Currier & Ives prints, which often reflect the same sentiments and the same details of rural life that her pictures do, in their less studied...