Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today most Mafia wives are native Americans, but their marriages reflect the old-country values of silence and obedience. Family bonds have weakened, but neither the generation gap nor the suburban Diaspora has dissolved them. Fathers may bankroll their sons in a legitimate business or pay their way through medical school. "But if the sons don't have the brains," says an investigator, "they are given work in the Mob. The sons don't become plumbers or factory workers. That wouldn't look right." Many of the daughters go to college, but only a few seek careers...
...truthful commercial information," wrote Thurgood Marshall, the court's only black Justice. While the ordinance was aimed at "the vital goal" of "promoting stable, racially integrated housing," the court ruled, the censoring of such basic information would enable "every locality in the country [to] suppress any facts that reflect poorly on the locality...
...behaved pretty much like chimps" until around 10,000 B.C., Jaynes said last week in an interview in Boston. The minds of these prehistoric creatures could solve simple problems and think crudely, much like rats performing in a maze, but they lacked the ability to reflect on the past, ponder the present, or imagine the future. Language developed in the eons between 100,000 and 10,000 B.C., but Jaynes insists that this ability--while important for the development of consciousness in the future--emerged independently. Just as somnambulists and people under hypnosis can speak perfectly intelligible English without...
Before developing the capacity to reflect consciously upon and solve complex problems, humans coped with stressfuluituations by obeying the dictates of hallucinatory voices they heard within their minds. Through evolution, the brain made room for these voices and became bicameral, using the left hemisphere for speech and the right hemisphere to produce inner commands...
...Says he: "The signals provided by the free enterprise system must be supplemented by governmental signals. Government must set the goals as well as the incentives and disincentives." Bradshaw would even accept Government price setting-but only on one product, crude oil, with the condition that the tag should reflect replacement costs...