Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teacher's certificate, to go through a year of factory work in an electrical shop and a Renault plant in Paris. Finding that she needed to train her body to operate like a machine to meet "piece-work" quotas, giving her neither time nor energy to think or reflect, Weil began to change all her notions about the chance of worker resistance and solidarity. She found that the oppressive conditions, instead of reinforcing her ideological belief in rebellion, mesmerized her into docility and submission...
LIDDELL'S BIOGRAPHY is just that--a life history--and no more. While he discusses Cavafy's poems as they reflect the poet's life experiences and as they illustrate Cavafy's growing and changing technique, Liddell has not attempted to incorporate a detailed interpretation of the body of Cavafy's work into his treatment of the man. His biography is not the place to turn for an appreciation of the poetry...
...State Department, Secretary Cyrus Vance sent a message to all U.S. posts overseas, noting that the Administration intended to conduct foreign policy "as openly as possible" and in ways that reflect "traditional American values." In the same spirit, he prohibited his staff from having secretaries secretly record or monitor telephone conversations. The practice was common in the Nixon and Ford administrations (New York Times Columnist William Safire dubbed the transcripts "the dead-key scrolls"). Carter liked Vance's order so much that he extended it to the White House; other Cabinet members are expected to follow suit...
Battered Woman. Store windows also reflect the kinky trend. In Cambridge, the Camel's Hump boutique displayed a dead woman, blood running from her mouth, tumbling out of a garbage can. Men's shoes ("We'd Kill For These") were placed on her head and neck. Last fall, a Bon wit Teller window in Boston featured a woman dragging a female body wrapped...
Pretty terrible? No, just terribly misleading. Actually, the growth picture is bright. Although the overall figures do not reflect the fact, the U.S. economy was in a true slump only in September and October. There was a strong rebound in the gross national product in November and December, led by an upsurge in spending by individual consumers. The fourth-quarter G.N.P. would have appeared much healthier except for a statistical accident. The jump in consumer buying was not matched right away by more spending by businessmen because they were still selling goods they had on the shelf...