Word: reflective
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...power, and Eastern Europe, where they are in power. Best exemplified in the West by the Italian Communist Party, the reformist strain is rational and reassuring. According to their pronouncements, the reformers aim to do what Alexander Dubcek attempted: to give Socialism a human face. The reformers reflect the trend toward embourgeoisement of the party members. Recognizing that voters are no longer gripped by old revolutionary slogans and that today's prosperous workers are more interested in Mercedes-Benz than Marx, many Communists have changed their tactics. Accepting the rules of the political game in their countries, the reformers...
Traditionally, high prices reflect a short supply of cattle. This year the mechanism of the market has been snarled by increasing affluence. With disposable income up 6% from last year, Americans are indulging in their longstanding love of beef. In the first quarter of this year, 6% more steers have been marketed than in the equivalent period of 1968, yet consumer demand for red meat is rising even faster. At current rates, Americans this year will eat an average of 110 Ibs. of beef each, compared with...
...establish procedures for their protection and enforcement. The present formulation is an interim statement, limited to activities that touch on the essential functions of a university. We recognize the need to formulate, in the near future a document that will emerge from the widest discussion within and will reflect a wide consensus of all members of the Harvard community. This statement shall apply equally to students, to officers of instruction, and to officers of administration...
Nonetheless, substantial minorities -in some cases even majorities-hold views that reveal significant shifts in traditional attitudes toward sex. Again, it is the young, the bettereducated, the relatively affluent who reflect the most liberal views. One surprising fact is Harris' finding that 64% believe that abortions should not be a matter of law but should be left to the prospective parents and their doctor; even a 60% majority of Roman Catholics agree. Other results...
Humphrey and Christensen do not, of course, depict gallant knights or maidens fair, as did 19th century Romantic painters. But the instinctive way in which their styles have evolved and the relaxed way in which they paint reflect the Romantic definition of the artist as propounded by John Ruskin. "The whole function of the artist," wrote Ruskin, "is to be a seeing and a feeling creature. He may think, in a byway; reason, now and then, when he has nothing better to do; know, such fragments of knowledge as he can gather without stooping, but none of these things...