Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schools select their students solely on the basis of scores on the entrance exams, but also admit qualified minority students with slightly lower test scores than their white counterparts. Overall, the three schools are 60 per cent white, 40 per cent black and hispanic. Since these figures do not reflect the racial make-up of the city's public school population (55 per cent black and hispanic and 45 per cent white) the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has filed suit against the schools on charges of discrimination against minority students. OCR wants the entrance exams changed, and wants...
...which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge. A true believer should, if he has to call anybody to book, start with himself. What should matter to him is not material gain but his recognition of his own self-image and the extent to which his actions reflect it. Inward success is a source of permanent and absolute power, independent of external factors; outward success fluctuates in response to changing circumstances...
West German films and novels today reflect that revulsion. To some, the sins of Auschwitz were never expiated; instead, a guilty society arose sleek and fat from defeat. Young men and women raised to take affluence for granted then violently recoiled from it and adopted the old anarchist's device of Propaganda by Deed...
...proper fundraising arena for student interest groups whether or not they are supported by the majority. I am sure that Harvard could reduce the term bill itself by running an advertising section on the term bill--but this would be highly improper. A term bill should reflect only the University's (and not some organization's) charges for matriculating at Harvard...
...deliver is not. ABC's blockbusters are downright obsessed with two subjects-youth and sex-that were never too important to earlier successful series. Obviously this twin fixation strikes a popular chord-for the Tuesday night hits win every age group in the Nielsen survey. The America they reflect is younger and sassier than the one that once embraced Lucy and Dobie. Happy Days'frantic pace is TV's equivalent of the erotic drive of Top 40 radio...