Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reaching upward everywhere-from new apartment buildings in once-devastated Cologne, from the hunting lodges of the Harz Mountains as well as the malty rathskellers of Bavaria-the television aerials of West Germany pull down programs with a standard of excellence unparalleled in the world. They reflect the variety of the national interest rather than its lowest common denominator-and until this month all this was achieved on a single channel operating just five hours a day. Now a second, supplementary channel has been introduced, and every night last week announcers on both channels were generously falling all over themselves...
They did it by taking control of Alleghany Corp., the vast Manhattan holding company whose direct assets ($122 million) by no means reflect the power it exercises over the U.S. economy. Besides having a controlling interest in the New York Central and substantial chunks of the Baltimore & Ohio and Missouri Pacific railroads, Alleghany controls Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, a $3.4 billion investment giant that includes the world's largest mutual fund. In the biggest and bitterest proxy fight in U.S. history, the Murchisons snatched Alleghany out of the hands of Woolworth Heir Allan P. Kirby, 68, a Wall...
...There is also the settled villagers' nostalgia for a happier nomadic past, and repeated echoes of Nasr-ed-Din, the great comic hero whose wit and clownish wisdom have enlivened Turkish bazaars for 700 years. For the most part the author's philosophy seems to reflect Memed's own mood, benign in the midst of violence: "What good men there are in the world...
...first, that source would appear to be the University itself; its professors and libraries, the structure of its courses, should provide incentive enough for any man. Yet it does not. Craig Comstock seems to reflect a widespread attitude when he writes that "at a college so proud of its academic tradition, we hear little talk about courses except, that is, about exams, curves, and grades....Courses, by and large, are pursued in a social vacuum. It means nothing that students gather in a lecture hall, for they could as well stay in their rooms and watch the show on television...
...there are diplomas that we riot about diplomas; perhaps it is because there is commencement that things that matter are deferred. We learn, we mark with pompous festival the end of learning, and then we do. And both the character of our learning and the character of our careers reflect our acceptance of this categorization of which diplomas and commencement are our symbol...