Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent changes in South Africa's attitude toward its black neighbors are only a whitewash. They reflect the increasing instability of the apartheid rule, and South Africa's increasing isolation on the continent. If the white South Africans wish to avoid a bloodbath, they will have to begin to make more and more concessions to the Africans, who are increasingly resistant to the regime. Only when South Africa forms a coalition government, in which the Africans have the majority they deserve numerically--not to mention the fact that they were there first, despite the government's assertion to the contrary...
...amazed at the number of Americans who have taken it upon themselves to judge a public servant for his activities in pursuit of happiness, rather than his capabilities in handling his elected job. I still fail to understand how Wilbur Mills' relationship with me could in any way reflect on his ability to write tax laws. When certain people were calling upon him for favors and guidance, I doubt if they prefaced their requests with questions about his personal life-be it sex, alcohol or whatever-and I have no doubt these same people are not asking those questions...
Though not all of the 2 million Basques inhabiting four provinces in Spain's northeast corner agree with the group's methods, the E.T.A.'s aims reflect a centuries-old aspiration of the Basque people for independence-or at least greater autonomy. The organization's initials stand for Euzkadi Ta Azkatasuna-which means "Basque Land and Liberty"-in the region's unique, highly inflected language. The origins of the Basques, who have lived in their present Iberian habitat for at least 5,000 years, are unknown; they seem to have no ethnic connection with...
...undergraduates in a modern mode, and to see to it that the new strictures are spread, at least in spirit, as broadly as possible across the land. What those strictures will be is far harder to judge--stricter grading policies, perhaps, and more requirements. Maybe the requirements will directly reflect modern society--more science, more economics, more on the third world--or perhaps they will stress basic writing and analytic skills. They are likely, however, to be based on a view of students as more generally alike than the current system implies they are, more likely to benefit from similar...
...encouraging sign about recent changes in the rules, then, is that the University has removed itself from the regulation of student morals. But its new rules reflect Harvard's increasingly corporate orientation. Faculty members use them to keep student workloads high, and administrators design them for the efficient operation of their departments...