Word: reflected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americans need not rise up in patriotic wrath at Mr. Laski's statement that "there is hardly a canon of institutional adequacy against which the American, system does not offend." They would do far better to follow Mr. Laski in his analysis of cherished American institutions and to reflect on the multifold weaknesses, actual and potential, therein involved. That the American system of divided responsibility makes neither for legislative coherence nor executive efficiency is a commonplace with any student of government. That it further hampers President and Cabinet members to a point which makes men of the highest ability chafe...
Last week, as he took his ease in a country manor, placid Ziggy did not reflect that almost every dead U. S. producer of gay, tinkling dramatics has died without funds. Instead, he reflected that an airplane, driven by Bernt Balchen, had just made a record driving from Staten Island to Detroit; that the airplane was the very one in which the late Floyd Bennett had tried to reach Greenly Island, and that it contained, by a fortunate exception in the regulations made especially for him, Marie Marrifield, one of his dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister...
...crowd is gone. The magnetism of the orator cools when transmitted through the microphone. The impassioned gesture swings through unseeing space. The purple period fades in color; the flashing eye meets no answering glance. . . . We sit in our library, in a room where we are accustomed to study and reflect, where all the surroundings are natural. When we there hear the same man speak we know him better than we could in the crowd. The very tones of his voice, quiet and deliberate, if he is to be heard by radio, proclaim his sincerity or his lack...
Robinson: "I do not mean to reflect on Franklin K. Lane...
...first poetry, his first published work was "Tramping Through Palestine". The jacket on the slim volume calls it a "gaily whimsical collection of lyrics" by a poet "unaffected by the vagaries of modern verse". To which we might add that the work does not, on the other hand, reflect the best traditions of the past. To be good, verse has to be very good, and "To All You Ladies" is certainly not over excellent poetry...