Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their naivete. He could wonder if science fiction ever could or should be great literature. He might decide that as it relates to "serious" literature, science fiction is somewhat like the Socialist Party under Norman Thomas--it can create radically different ways of looking at things, it can reflect a part of the popular mind, but finally it will have accomplished the most by having its best ideas stolen by other, better manipulators. Hence, Anthony Burgess and Kubrick in the just barely future of A Clockwork Orange, and the imaginary but parallel worlds of Vladimir Nabokov...
That led me here beyond despair, Where I too may reflect Your...
...that I may yet reflect, You shall...
...Seder meal on the eve of Pass over is "the most universally ob served and therefore the most unifying of all Jewish ceremonies," says British Author Chaim Raphael. When Jews throughout the world sit down to the meal this week, they will recount and reflect again on the 3,000-year-old story of how the Angel of Death "passed over" the Israelites when slaying Egypt's firstborn, as told in the Seder narrative, the Haggadah...
...pink statue of Chairman Mao stands at the university's entrance. Inside the building, the curriculum is being radically reshaped to reflect Mao's doctrine that colleges should combine "education, production and scientific research." In practice, this means that Futan has completely dropped the traditional courses in literature and science and replaced them with such subjects as electronics and optics-and it conducts those classes in its own factories. Built and operated by the university, the factories produce equipment ranging from quartz-tungsten lamps to logic circuits for third-generation computers. The university also plans a petrochemical plant...