Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough to find out it can't be done...there's always a let down and an ungratifying experience...You go up to something you knew in your childhood and you're full of feeling about it and that feeling doesn't come through. The object doesn't reflect that feeling. You put something in it that's no longer there. Something of yourself...I avoid that strictly now. Although I'm very interested in the immediate past impersonally." Records of streets that have since been cleared out and torn down "take on a tremendous appeal and beauty far above...
Unfortunately both reports reflect the biases of their funders, and thus their analysis of rent control is somewhat distorted. The Harbridge House report was done in a period of three months, and it shows. Its structure is vague and its use of statistics undisciplined. At times the report relies on irrelevant figures to back up its arguments and, even worse, uses statistics from biased sources without qualification. Finally, the report entirely sloughs over crucial issues such as rent control's effect on housing maintenance. The Sternlieb report, Sternlieb's investigation is incomplete and contains important informational gaps...
...women amount to an attempt to "let nature have its chance to work a balance here." Cheever explains that although the report mentions no quotas, it envisions a period when men and women will apply in equal numbers to the Med School and when the accepted class will reflect, in its ratio of men to women, the proportion of qualified men to qualified women in the applicant pool, even if that means accepting more women than...
...members: a child becomes ill and the parents have to face thousands of dollars worth of medical expense, when at best they can meet the cost of their groceries. What can the consequences be? Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just...
Nevertheless, Jacobs is backing Papp's efforts; this season the Shubert organization gave Papp's off-off-Broadway Public Theater $150,000 to present ten new playwrights. The grants reflect the change in Shubert, the multimillion-dollar real-estate empire. As landlord of 16% Broadway houses, it was for decades a powerful and increasingly neglectful influence. In 1972, Broadway's blackest year, Shubert was hit hard. It even seemed likely that many Broadway houses would be replaced by office buildings but for the kind of chance known as "actor's luck"; the theater slump had coincided...