Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Noting that "color doesn't really exist without the observer," Land added that the relationship between the human mind and the outside environment must reflect the close links in the perception process...
...Generation. Ignored or mocked during the rebellious 1960s, the senior prom has returned to fashion, partly because of nostalgia, partly because of precocious hedonism and the delights of conspicuous consumption. Not since the 1950s has the prom phenomenon been so "in." The proms seem to reflect the mood of a depoliticized generation that is simply interested in having some fun. Yet today's promgoers are not just reliving the 1950s in the spirit of Grease, the long-running rock musical that recalls the period with such sardonic songs as It's Raining on Prom Night and Alone...
...athletes. Or, more broadly, that society generally values members who do its most serious work not nearly as much as the actors, clowns and jocks whose task is merely to distract and amuse. But this handy method of social soul searching is not reliable. Far more directly, income differences reflect the operations of the marketplace...
...their accents and their lifestyles. They relish politics more for the pleasure than the power, more for the gambol than the glory. They are almost indecently at ease in the White House; nobody has told them what a somber place it is supposed to be. Though they may not reflect the substance of the Carter presidency, they are the living image of its down-home style...
...that." Jordan has also balked at putting any more people under his own control. "I'd do better if there was just Landon Butler and me and two secretaries, instead of even the six or seven people I have now. Then I would have time to think and reflect on the things I want to focus...