Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kosinski's novels reflect this notion. His writing style exemplifies it; his protagonists characterize...
...busy three-day visit to Alaska, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin rubbed noses with an Eskimo, panned for gold on the beaches of Nome, donned a hard hat for a tour of the pipeline at Prudhoe Bay, and collected postcards at every stop. He also paused to reflect on how Secretary of State William Henry Seward had bought the territory for a mere $7.2 million from Czar Alexander II in 1867. In the U.S., Dobrynin noted, the deal "was known as Seward's Folly, but Alexander was known as foolish in my own country long before...
...increases in benefits ?both those being paid now and those that will be paid hi the future?to inflation. Below the maximum benefit (currently $460 per month), the amount a worker will receive from Social Security when he retires increases as his salary rises. Since pay hikes partly reflect inflation, the measure thus inadvertently double-indexed future benefit levels for these workers?about 86% of the people covered by Social Security?to price rises. To eliminate the double boost, the House approved a complex new formula that will keep the average benefit where it is now: at about...
...other two teams, the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees, that were more disparate. The Dodgers represent old-style baseball under a California sun. Nurtured on the Dodger farm system to live by simple virtues, they respect their owner, love their manager and hit home runs. The Yankees reflect the clamor and chaos of New York City. High-powered and high-salaried, they are as disputatious, selfish and disdainful of each other as they are talented-a galaxy of stars, singularly burning with a hard, cold light. The following stories probe beyond the line scores into the contrasting characters...
Perhaps Isom's modest afterthoughts reflect his spectacular results from a lot of relatively unspectacular runs, and typify the way the Tigers almost secretly dominated the game. But run it over in your mind a couple of times and you'll realize that rarely did Isom get stopped for anything less than five or six yards. There was no Tony Dorsett 70 yard touchdown scamper. It was just hard, steady work...