Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of the United States expect that American foreign policy will reflect their universal concern for human rights and democracy. Yet, the U.S. government continues to aid the suppression of human rights in Greece and other corrupt and fascist governments in the name of freedom...
...paper. Born in Marshall, Minn., and educated at Iowa State and Wisconsin, Bartley became a Journal staffer in 1962. After ten years of reporting, writing editorials and turning out think pieces for the editorial page, he was tapped for his present post. The Journal's editorials generally reflect Bartley's economic conservatism but are less predictable than in previous years. Lately the paper urged the House Judiciary Committee to seek support for its subpoenas in court and called for the impeachment inquiry to go forward...
...remaining progressive journals as the Jesuit weekly America, the Critic and the National Catholic Reporter. But his attacks on liberals can be acerbic. In his 1971 book, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism, Hitchcock lists no fewer than 26 "heretical notions" of Catholic radicals, including several that strongly reflect the cultural evolutionary thought of Jesuit Philosopher Teilhard de Chardin...
...Nixon's trip dramatized the beginning of a new era in U .S.-Middle East relations. "To the critics, to those with pragmatic American minds, the gesture is unnecessary," admits Cherif Bassiouni, an Egyptian who teaches international law at Chicago's De Paul University. "But such gestures reflect emotions, and to the Arab psyche such gestures have a greater impact than anything else the U.S. could have done. For the Arabs, political issues must be couched in moral and symbolic terms, not in terms of pragmatism...
...solution may well be to dismantle the giant planet Jupiter. How? Berry recalls a mind-boggling scheme to speed up Jupiter's rotation enough to tear off chunks of the planet; they would then be assembled in a thick band in orbit around the sun. The debris would reflect useful solar energy back toward earth and could also be used for human settlement...