Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project is designed to promote the development of a community of scholars who collaborate across traditional disciplinary divisions to clarify similarities and differences among traditions of social values," says Rupp, "and to reflect on the policy implications of those similarities and differences...
Reagan's push for a prayer amendment may reflect longstanding conviction, but its timing and strategy at least have been heavily influenced by electoral calculation. Fundamentalist and Evangelical Protestants contributed many ballots to Reagan's 1980 sweep. But some have been grumbling that the President has done little to advance the so-called social issues that concern them most, like antiabortion legislation. Some months ago, White House strategists decided that the outset of the presidential campaign was the right time to placate this "core constituency" and that school prayer was the issue to stress in doing so. Explains...
...juice. So Michael creates around himself a world that protects his creativity." And the world outside is intrigued: about that rhinestone glove, for instance, that he has taken to affecting of late. Whatever their significance may be to Michael, gloves neatly, wittily?and, one hopes, consciously?deflect seriousness and reflect two of Michael's most publicized obsessions. A glove, even one with 1,200 rhinestones, suits Astaire-style topper and tails; it is also standard issue for many Disney cartoon characters...
...reality is cities will remain. They can get worse, and hopefully they can get better. Anyway, for whatever it's worth, I am with Lippman and Mumford in believing that what happens to them will both reflect and determine what happens to America. And perhaps someday soon Harvard and the country will be with them...
...correspondences to a higher world, but the very natural environment of Martinique and Africa (which he had seen and Baudelaire had not). His affirmation of African values through a European language allowed Cesaire to infuse his poetry with politics. Negritude, at first merely a stylistic definition, came to reflect the political dilemma of newly-liberated African and Caribbean countries...