Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was the situation which existed when I arrived in Vietnam. In the light of these conditions, what could be the route toward political settlement? An end to the fighting, it seemed to me, would have to reflect the twin realities of the increase in the urban population and the continuing control by the Viet Cong of a significant portion of the countryside. "Peace in the immediate future," I concluded, "must be based on accommodation." The title of my article was "The Bases of Accommodation" and its central theme was the need for accommodation between the warring sides. I argued...
...author of the German edition, Protestant Physician Martin Goldstein, in fact developed the book in response to questions he encountered as a medical adviser to the Lutheran Youth Counseling Center in Düsseldorf. For the U.S. edition, Yale Research Fellow Erwin J. Haeberle has rewritten the text to reflect U.S. sex laws and mores. As in Germany, the book is primarily intended for youthful readers, preferably with adult guidance...
...trashy, it was assumed that Warhol was being ironic. But irony is intervention, between perceiver and the perceived, and Warhol does not intervene in that way. In reality, Marilyn and Liz, with their peacock masks of off-register color, seem rather to be the products of wistful affection. They reflect the same gee-whiz obsession with glamour and stardom that led Warhol to create the legendary, shifting entourage of drag queens, raucous juvenile models and human parrot fish who, entering a room in a cloud of sequins and patchouli, take the strain of flamboyancy off the Master's back...
...monetary system by itself. Perhaps the most important lesson of the crisis is that financially, as well as politically and militarily, the days of unchallenged U.S. dominance of the non-Communist world are over. A natural corollary of that development is that the monetary structure should be redesigned to reflect the new reality, and some Europeans did indeed draw that conclusion last week. James Callaghan, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, for one, in effect called for a second Bretton Woods conference "to build a new system...
...Vietnam Summer. Because Mayday was the first national mass action of the revolutionary new left. Mayday seems to me to have been a success, although its success remains problematical. It raises many questions for me about what defines success or failure for the movement right now. These questions reflect my own doubts and confusion and personal feelings. They certainly have no more legitimacy than anyone else...