Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sordid affairs of her family. Laving floats in this play like a premonition of the woman Birdie will become--in The Little Foxes we see her twenty years later, trembling and broken after her uneven war of attrition with the Hubbard family, which she marries into--and both characters reflect aspects of Julia...
...refugees who have petitioned to be flown back to Viet Nam by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (1,200 have already left). Most of them, especially the single men, are returning because they want to be reunited with their families. But increasingly, those who seek repatriation reflect an unfortunate fact about the American refugee resettlement program: it has been so excruciatingly slow and inefficient that it has left some refugees, if not eager to return to Viet Nam, at least demoralized about their prospects...
...Kremlin's enduring obsession with secrecy may at least partly reflect a residual sense of inferiority about Soviet technical skills. Until Stafford and ins men made it plain that they would not fly the ASTP mission if they could not inspect their partners' hardware, the Russians refused even to show them Soyuz and its launcher. When the Americans finally saw the spacecraft, they realized why. The Soviet equipment seemed even less sopinsticated than it had been reputed...
...State of Virginia, Jefferson was capable of declaring that Negroes were in their reason and imagination much inferior to whites and even that they smelled bad. Even so, he seems genuinely to have abominated slavery, and he expressed terrible premonitions: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just...
...proposals stressed basic equalities such as women's right to vote, have the same educational and job opportunities as men and participate in the political processes of their countries. The document included such familiar feminist demands as better child-care facilities, sharing household duties and rewriting textbooks to reflect "an image of women in positive and participatory roles in society...