Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Mr. Kupferberg is rubbing our noses in the futility of our efforts, he might reflect that political consciousness without an alternative program in which ordinary people can participate is equally futile. This is true even of the prodigiously informed, finely turned consciousness attained in Harvard's History and Literature department, in which I believe Mr. Kupferberg is a concentrator...
...Dhabi. But those figures did not reflect living standards because the quick cash has not had time to filter down to the people. Bureaucracies strained to figure out ways to spend at home. Kuwait expanded one of the world's most all-encompassing welfare states. To hold down food prices, most of the big oil producers subsidized imports of staples. Office buildings, low-rent apartments and supermarkets rose almost everywhere. Some planners worried about keeping a work ethic going. Said a Saudi government minister: "We will have to be very careful not to spoil our citizens. Our people will have...
...almost 3 million copies, with such advice as where the father of the bride should sit if he and the mother of the bride are divorced. (Beside his new wife in the third pew behind the mother of the bride.) Married four times, Vanderbilt continually revised her book to reflect society's increasing informality, but she believed strongly that "only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity...
...Underground. The Fords believe that parties are more than fun -they say something about the nation's first family. "I want our parties to reflect many fields of American culture in a variety of ways," says Mrs. Ford, "in the entertainment we choose, in the guest lists, in the decorations. We want to have people of achievement there -scientists, artists, intellectuals, people from the sports world." These lists reveal another, unspoken intent: bringing back people who were shut out of the White House in the Nixon years. At one Ford dinner the President invited Justice William O. Douglas, whom...
...textbooks. In 1972 the state finally decided against requiring textbooks to include religious creation theory, but adopted a compromise measure, ordering that textbooks should not reflect a "scientismic" bias?i.e., the assumption that the scientific approach is the only one possible. Some fundamentalists are still not satisfied. The Creation Research Society, whose members subscribe to a literal, six-day view of creation, is currently buttonholing local school-board members to get them to include the teaching of creation theory...