Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland insists that the poorer than anticipated Soviet harvest was "probably" caused by a late period of bad weather and does not simply reflect poor intelligence. Indeed, Agriculture picture analysts say they were revising their estimates of the Soviet harvest downward before Brezhnev made his announcement...
Surveys of sexual manners and mores are contradictory and tend to reflect the views of the pollsters. Perhaps the most significant such survey, however, is one taken in 1970 by the Kinsey Institute (officially the Institute for Sex Research), which is being used as the basis of a book entitled American Sexual Standards, to be published next year. Like the Yankelovich survey, the Kinsey study of 3,000 people showed a substantial majority (72% to 87%) disapproving of adultery, homosexuality, prostitution and casual sex among adolescents. "What really surprised us," Colin J. Williams, coauthor of the study, told TIME...
Beckett's poems in French reflect this same style, with a few modifications geared to linguistic subtleties. In any case, if there is a slight stylistic difference, the effect does not diminish the most important thing--the poignant quality we know so well in Beckett's English works. The following poem and its translation were written between the years of 1937 and 1938 after Beckett had made his home in France...
...deplorable that a few students opposing the strike have attempted to provoke violence by marching through picket lines while wearing T-shirts emblazoned "Break the Strike." But their irresponsible actions can only reflect well on those students who support Local 35. More harmful, though, is the attitude of the Yale Corporation, which must in the end decide what the administration will do. In its dismal record of employee relations over the last nine years, Yale has set a poor example for other colleges and universities, many of which will be facing serious financial problems in the near future. The strike...
...play's end there still remains the disorienting disclosure of the performers' gender. All along, The Club has been a bastion of masculinity whose patrons have seemed enamored of their lifestyle and loath to relinquish it. But suddenly we learn that the play is intended to reflect what women believe men think. Throwing off its comic guise. The Club reveals itself to be social commentary...