Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second Vatican Council's draft declaration on non-Christians, is willing to respect views of the creator less specific than its own. "The Church regards with sincere reverence those ways of action and of life, precepts and teachings which, although they differ from the ones she sets forth, reflect nonetheless a ray of that Truth which enlightens...
...life. Working with a diffused and he has molded his large cast into a brightly moving melange, which, except for a lapse after maintains a remarkably swift pace. Under his direction the Puddies handle a range of moves and dances with surprising assuredness. And his choreography and blocking reflect the touch of a professional (which indeed...
...proposed solutions for the "sex problem" reflect this acuteness of mind: If the kid still believes in God, give him fire and brimstone. If he has absorbed the skepticism of the age, hand him a contraceptive, lock open his bedroom door, and read him the latest illegitimacy statistics...
This is not to say that every student must secure his liberal education through the formal Gen Ed program. Occasionally a particularly well-prepared or imaginative freshman will be able to construct his own distribution program, composed entirely of departmental courses. Such programs, if legitimate, will reflect a keen sense of the qualitative meaning of general education rather than a cynical skill for manipulating ratios. The Gen Ed Committee should not only accept such programs; it should encourage them. And it should provide interested freshman with special advisors to help outline and coordinate the programs...
...growing up unequipped to live in an urban, primarily middle-class, world of papers and pens, books and conversations, machines and desks and time clocks." He fails to note that culturally advantaged children born into that idyllic world frequently find it unsatisfactory, or downright repulsive. And he does not reflect on what a fully automated, fully rationalized world will be like. Of course it is necessary to feed and house people before attending to the neuroses of the well-fed and well-housed. But the wide psychological impact of automation cannot be isolated from its immediate material benefits...