Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Critics complain that Ford lacks compassion for America's unfortunates, noting that most of his 56 vetoes have been aimed at social welfare programs. But the vetoes reflect Ford's innate skepticism that big Government programs are the answer to society's shortcomings. Aides have often detected a hard edge to the President's voice in discussions of pending social legislation. One White House adviser describes him as "the kind of guy who would take his shirt off his back and give it to a poor kid he saw on the street and then walk...
Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science and one of the tenured faculty in Chinese Government, said yesterday, "We were for him, but we couldn't prevail against the whole department. The whole thing doesn't reflect on his merits...
...rarely offend. That editorial-page task is left to Doug Marlette, 26, whose tough cartoons are syndicated to 80 dailies. Lately, Executive Editor David Lawrence has invited local businessmen to sit in on editorial meetings. "We're not afraid of criticism," he says. "I want this paper to reflect the ideas of the people who live here...
Some of Stewart's songs today reflect a life devoted to kinfolk and lazy afternoons. In Easy People the affection and ennui are all but overwhelming...
...improvement over the kind of careerism of the '72-'74 period, greater introspection does not automatically lead to an interest in social change. Jewett says the tenor of the applications he has been receiving worries him somewhat, because he fears that unless college students (he believes Harvard applicants generally reflect the attitudes of the rest of the nation) become more motivated to social action, the nation will be stagnant in a few years, when these students become a politically apathetic group of adults...