Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHOPIN's Sonata in G for Cello and Piano (op. 65) is the single piece of chamber music to reflect his capabilities. Madeline Foley's performance began in elegant style, but early in the first movement her fingers cramped up, marring her usual precision. She continued, but with painful results. Mlle. Foley was obviously upset with her performance, but it is a credit to her that she continued...
Crimson captain Eugene White, who had a 1-1 record against SMU, concurred with Marion's appraisal, and added that the scores didn't reflect the true potential of the squad...
...horse's head resting on a three dimensional triangle; another resembles a pyramid changing into a flamingo. Though these creations were assembled especially for this presentation--most have been made since September--they nevertheless lack the group coherence and consistency that should characterize a professional show. Her pieces reflect a young hard-working artist who has not yet found a definite style...
...test. For, all it really says is that people vary genetically and that genetic variations are sometimes socially important. What the I.Q. does for the argument is put some teeth into it, which is no doubt why it provokes such a furor. It has been shown that I.Q. scores reflect genetic differences between people (though not entirely), that they correlate with the ordinary meaning of intelligence (though far from perfectly), that they index a necessary (though not sufficient) ingredient in success for most occupations in a modern society. You may disbelieve each of those assertions...
Another theory is that the crime shows do not reflect the tastes and preoccupations of viewers so much as the conservatism of advertisers, who prefer the lesser risk of wrapping their commercials around variations of a tried and true formula. Attempts to vary that formula have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch. The good guys come in wondrous array: in uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Lawyer Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic...