Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST EFFECTIVE songs in Bicentennial Follies, however, reflect the sadness that accompanies the dissolution of myths reinforcing the American way of life--perhaps because the show's authors are less interested in taking pot shots at American beliefs than in evoking the anomie that results from their loss. The first break with the viciously comic tenor of the early part of the show is the hauntingly elegiac "Nothing to be Sure Of." A dirge on the familiar theme of the son lost at war, this duet is made memorable by the beautiful blending of Greg Gordon's baritone and Carol...
...Harvard and other squads without a realistic chance of winning, this is more a time to sit back and reflect on the dual-meet schedule just completed and to look forward to the resumption of competition next year...
...plans for the Imperial Medical Center of Iran (IMCI), to be funded by the Iranian government, reflect the Shah's political attitudes. Like most Third World nations, Iran needs to deliver primary health care to its entire population. Instead, the IMCI plans call for a referral center that would "provide sophisticated health care to the many Iranians who today can afford to seek care." Another major goal of the project is to encourage American-trained Iranian physicians to return to staff the new center and conduct their potentially important research at home. But the plans do not provide...
...with grandiose parades!" He recalls his mother's observation of evenings spent at a mountain castle: "Hitler was terribly nice. But such a parvenu world!" He broods on the fact that he suddenly cannot remember the Führer's "engaging traits": "Have continued to reflect on my relationship to Hitler. The theme of faithlessness." He recalls the remark of an associate, "made after an evening visit to my studio, that I was Hitler's unrequited love...
...thrust at us. Where once there were several dozen news papers, plus books, correspondence and a pamphlet literature, Americans now have access to some 1,500 daily newspapers, more than 10,000 magazines, nearly 1,000 television channels and almost 8,000 radio stations. Of course, the bigger numbers reflect a bigger population-but only partly. For the fact is that in most respects the increase in information has been disproportionate; we absorb a quantity of information each day that would have sat ed our ancestors for a year or more...