Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flaming Rowboat. To test his assumptions, Sakkas ordered the construction of dozens of flat mirrors that were covered with a thin reflecting sheet of polished copper. Each was about 5 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, small enough to be handled by one person. The Greek navy provided the men, the site and the target: a wooden rowboat with a tar-coated, plywood silhouette of a Roman galley attached to one side. When all was ready, Sakkas' burning-glass experiment took place early this month at the Skaramanga naval base outside Athens. After lining up 70 mirror-bearing sailors...
...Study! Reflect...
Professors at Harvard, with few notable exceptions, are granted the theoretical right to advocate rebellion, to develop, and reflect on Marxist ideologies, or to argue for an end to private ownership of land, homes, factories and means of transportation. In much the same sense, editors at Time or Newsweek or The New York Times are free to view the Cuban Revolution as a positive step forward for mankind. It is a deep and clever North American deception to allow professor, scholar, editor alike, to say that they please when we know well that what they please is what we like...
...Neill aide said that these letters accurately reflect the sentiments of "nearly all" eighth district constituents...
Pritchett's knowledge of Balzac's body of writing is so well assimilated that he can call on it at will. There are no noisome transitions between "life" and "work." Fictional characters and stories are woven into the book as they reflect on Balzac's life or illustrate the boiling contradictions of his nature...