Word: reflective
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West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week dismissed the Soviet campaign as "completely absurd defamation." Officials in Bonn say the blasts from Moscow will in no way affect the Honecker visit. The Soviet attacks may reflect the Kremlin's desire, as a Soviet official put it to a West German diplomat in Moscow recently, "to treat the West Germans the same way we treat the Americans." But they also give voice to deep-rooted fears that Germany will one day be reunited and become hostile to the Soviet Union. Said a Western diplomat: "They are putting down a marker...
Though the requirements do not strictly follow any other university's model, they reflect a similar trend in the nation's top universities, experts said...
Larkin's idiosyncrasies sparkle throughout Required Writing, an immensely readable gathering of his nonfiction prose. The topics reflect the diversity of freelance journalism, from the poems of Andrew Marvell to the novels of Ian Fleming, from jazz to a bachelor's speculations about why people get married. Larkin seems to have seized upon each assignment as an opportunity to puncture what has been overpraised, to praise what has been overlooked, or to make some wry self-revelation. Sometimes he does all three at once, as in his discussion of W.H. Auden. He recalls finding the famous older writer...
These and so many more hot-selling pop songs reflect our generation's disillusionment and pessimism. That pop artists have turned their themes inward only mirrors the larger societal decision to turn their backs on problems, which only seem to get worse and grow in number. And, even as we turn inward, it is not to celebrate the individual, but to confirm the complementary social and personal alienation. Such pessimism is a natural reaction to a pretty gloomy future says Travers, pointing to the economic situation and nuclear arms race. Although no panacea exists, there are small changes...
...song from Victory. One might deduce from this that even the Jacksons recognize the flimsiness of much of the new material. Such an assumption is arguable-many bands like to wait until records are more familiar to an audience before performing songs from them live-but it would also reflect the sort of narrow spirit that got the tour into such hot water with the public in the first place. Yes, $30 was too much for a rafter seat so high in the stadium that you could be buzzed by low-flying aircraft; and yes, the four-ticket minimum-maximum...