Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these developments in English reflect a switch in educational philosophy, from reliance on courses to increased emphasis on tutorial, perhaps this change in ideals should be taken under closer scrutiny. As a future policy for the English Department, or for the College as a whole, it just might not be a totally good thing...
They are not the work of crackpots but of reputable men, some of them geniuses. Leonardo himself designed an "ideal city," and Piranesi planned a "cultural center" of moats and courtyards that seemed to fit inside each other like Chinese boxes. More recently, the visionaries have been apt to reflect Le Corbusier's warning that "the problem of the century is the problem of the city." Dismayed by blight and overcrowding, Kiyonori Kikutake designed a city over water consisting of a huge floating deck that would be pierced by great concrete cylinders lined with dwellings. Buckminster Fuller planned...
...investor found himself in a bear market or a bull market depended very much on what stocks he owned. The Dow-Jones industrial average, composed of only 30 stocks out of 1,800, helps give a day-to-day picture of the market's volatility, but fails to reflect accurately the long-run fate of many stocks. Last week the industrial average was down 15% from its alltime high in January of this year, was at the same level as December 1958. But some stocks, such as food and drugs, which face a bright future in an expanding population...
...Crimson did not play a poor game; it merely was unable to finsh off its many promising drives. This fault cannot be attributed to Ravenel's absence: even in the Holy Cross game, for example, the score didn't reflect the extent to which Harvard had dominated the game. Bartolet made some mistakes (Ravenel made them as a sophomore too), but he also passed better than any Crimson quarterback in at least four years. With experience, he will be very, very good.GEORGE EKSTROM (48) starts on the 11-yard jaunt that gave Cornell its second touchdown of the afternoon...
...early years, Schiele writes, "I lived in joy, in a joy alternating between serenity and wistfulness. Then came the empty hours." World War I and many family problems placed further restrictions on his liberty and his painting came more and more to reflect the pathos within...