Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Introducing this collection of 20 exemplary tales, culled from slick magazines and small literary journals, Editor William Abrahams notes: "However little attention they overtly pay to the public life of our time, these stories reflect in a more truthful way, at however indirect an angle of vision, the realities of contemporary life as most of us know...
...they will sell anyway." To some of his listeners, this indicated that Apple considers design dispensable gift wrapping. It also raised the specter of technology and engineering moving ahead of design instead of following from it, with the result that the style of buildings, computers and graphics would merely reflect expediency. As Design Writer Ralph Caplan put it, "Designers today are caught between market research and their creative instincts. The trouble is, we don't have a choice. Non-design is also a form of design." If the future is not what it used to be, perhaps next year...
...Hasidic groups.* Ever since the founding of Israel in 1948, traditionalist Jews who cluster in the Mea Shearim or Geula neighborhoods of northern Jerusalem have often stoned passing automobiles on the Sabbath and otherwise vented their wrath on those who violate God's law. But the recent outbursts reflect a new militancy on the part of extremists and a fundamental change in the relations of the city's religious groups...
...year, the association asked its 1,007 congregations to discuss what it should do. Based on responses from 260 churches, Jones' Committee on Purposes and Principles proposed to last week's assembly in Vancouver that the reference to God be replaced with a statement that the churches "reflect various forms of Theism, Christianity, Humanism, Feminism and other religious traditions." A study paper explained that "the origins of feminist theology may be found in the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, India, China, Greece-wherever female deities were honored." While elevating feminism to the status of a new brand of faith...
Beyond the aesthetics of the thing, writing one's own ceremony may reflect a basic misunderstanding about the event. If bride and groom repeat the same vows their parents repeated, the vows they may expect their children to repeat, and if the same tears are shed now that were shed five generations before at the same rite, then the ceremony has its continuity and resonances. The formality may be boring, but it is not meaningless...