Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEYMOUR FISHER'S The Female Orgasm is much more fertile ground for enlightened thinking about female sexuality. It is the first significant post-Freudian study of the psychology of sexual response--of the extent to which sexuality may both reflect and influence the individual woman's personality. Fisher and his staff carried on an intensive examination--through interviews, questionnaires, and an immense variety of psychological and physiological tests--of the character of sexual response and the personality traits of 287 married women. At no point were any of the women, in the Masters and Johnson style, actually observed in sexual...
This simple piece of departmental arithmetic should make it evident that failure to retain any particular person constitutes neither an act of "firing" (as some observers would have it) nor does it reflect on the excellence of those who leave. To interpret otherwise is to do injustice to them as well as to the departmeet. Why then all the concern with the department's recent decisions? The answer of course is that those not retained included two people of "radical" persuasion and the handle which this lends to the charge that they would have been retained had their political views...
...differences in theoretical outlook reflect conflicting committments concerning the relationship of the economist to the larger power structure. Underlying the theoretical shortcomings of the conventional economics is the definition of the professional role of the economist: as teacher and researcher alike, the economist is seen as developing analytical tools to aid corporate or government decision makers in resource allocation problems...
...dollar that in turn was tied to a supposedly "immutable" price in gold was destroyed by the 1971 dollar devaluation. Since then, devaluations, revaluations and floats have been coming with dizzying rapidity. The new flexibility is by no means bad. It enables currency values to change so that they reflect more accurately the international competitive strength of each country. But the world sorely needs some agreed-upon rules for making the changes, so that they will not always be forced by a series of wrenching crises...
...only reflect on what we may have learned and think of all those who paid the price for that wisdom...