Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tugwell had been soundly sat on at the party's Philadelphia convention. As chairman of the platform committee, he had tried for a credo which would reflect the views of "oldfashioned American progressives." Instead, Lee Pressman, committee secretary, rammed through a platform which faithfully reflected the Communist line. It now seemed obvious to Tugwell that the Communists had taken over...
...fact that a federal grand jury had taken no action against some persons named by congressional witnesses did not mean that those persons had been automatically cleared. For one thing, there was a strong suspicion that Department of Justice lawyers had not been overanxious to produce evidence which would reflect on a Democratic Administration. For another, congressional investigators could and should throw their spotlight in areas which no grand jury can illuminate...
...streaks and dashes to represent strife, black for death, white for purity and blue for triumph. An eagle and a snake, which also appear in Mexico's flag, dimly inhabited the bright chaos. Struggling up past them into the blue was a pair of lonely human legs. To reflect the sunlight, Orozco had embedded bits of glass into the concrete wall, and added strips of bronze and stainless steel to accent his lines...
Glories of Night. The professor loves the night. "The human mind at such a moment may reflect," he says, "that all the glories of night are a consequence of a trifle of shadow that lies back of the earth, the sun banging through its great system, only here and there blocked by a tiny opaque ball that casts its tiny shadow. Because of that shadow-all the night music, the night poetry, the dark thoughts, the neon signs, the silent seductions, the bats, the thieveries, the large frights, the small frights, the mere worries, the walking of floors careful that...
...Slow, More Surely. In large part it would reflect the careful personality of Tom Dewey himself. It was just that thought which had caused the real opposition to his nomination. Though nearly all Republicans respected him for his administrative skill, and admired him for his ability to command the loyalty of top-notch aides, a variety of Republicans felt he was not the kind of man they could cotton to. Old Guardists could love John Bricker, young folks could idealize Harold Stassen. others could be devoted to Statesman Vandenberg. Dewey, it was variously said, was too mechanically precise...