Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hint of a fighting tone in McClean's words may reflect the Financial Times' decision to foray onto Dow Jones' U.S. turf: the paper is offering U.S. newspapers a weekly insert of international business coverage that made its debut Jan. 10 in the Houston Chronicle. Bigger efforts may follow. Says a Financial Times executive: "We are not printing a U.S. edition, but we should be. That is the logical next step...
...exhibition comes to us with the vox humana stop full out. Its aim, the catalogue tells us, is to reflect the present Pope's will "to foster man's spiritual growth and aspirations to artistic greatness ... to give our visitors joy in the appreciation of the creative spirit in man's nature that transcends his worldly ambitions." The bottom line of this fund-raising show is a little more concrete: the Met had to give the Vatican $580,000 for restoration work and 10% of catalogue sales, plus a cut on the replicas and souvenirs; the museum...
...Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Nightingale, the Chinese Emperor, although captivated by the sound of his songbird, replaces it with a jewel-encrusted replica. The parable may reflect the mid-life anxieties of Mick Jagger, 39, who plays the Emperor in this summer's broadcast of Showtime TV's Faerie Tale Theater. Anticipating the end of the Rolling Stones after two decades of great music, Jagger seems to be pointing toward a new life in film. Let's Spend the Night Together, Director Hal Ashby's portrait of the Stones...
Some of these images reflect actual conditions, though rarely with much original analysis. But many common assumptions about undergraduate attitudes and campus life ignore the facts altogether. Homo harvardus deserves a fresh assessment...
...Black educators argue that reliance on standardized tests distorts the mission of predominantly Black colleges for both athletes and non-athletes. They have once again-called the SAT ethnically biased and inappropriate as a tool in admissions or eligibility decisions for disadvantaged Blacks because the scores do not reflect untapped intellectual abilities or qualities such as leadership potential or personal motivation...