Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innocent man and a greedy woman had fornicated and Ruth could not endorse the illusions that made it seem more than that. They were exaggerators, both of them." The reader agrees, and is inclined to root for Ruth who wants to save her marriage. He is also inclined to reflect on what appear to be similar- ities between Jerry and Updike himself: that galloping insomnia, for instance. Like Updike's own recently divorced wife, Ruth is a Unitarian minister's daughter. Like Updike and his wife, Ruth and Richard once went to art school together: "Cadmium yellow danced...
...assistant director of the Boston OCR said last week that the report, which is now on his desk, is unacceptable, because it does not reflect a verbal report he received from its authors earlier this year. With this disclosure, the future of the report is further thrust into doubt...
Nobody seems to understand the inner mechanics of the local OCR office and why the written report does not reflect the verbal...
...said Nader, "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." But most people "don't know the rudiments of civic inquiry, and if they don't have a process of learning where to get information, they will reflect the usual attributes of powerlessness: apathy, lethargy, disillusionment, negativism...
Orbiting about their two centers of gravity, the reporters assumed positions of lesser constellations, but with some star shine of their own and a great deal of reflected light. Election day plucked them from their brilliant night sky, returning them once again to the earth they left many months ago, to walk among the lesser mortals who had appeared before as just a blurry mass below. Perhaps when they wake from their well-deserved rest, some will pause for a moment to contemplate the election results (they, too, must have cared who won) and reflect upon their part...