Word: reflected
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Nothing in Brock's personal life and tastes dims the image of regularity that he carries in public. A spare man two weeks short of his 40th birthday, his clothes and hair reflect no effort at compromise with today's youthful fashions. He likes semiclassical music and Winston Churchill, and privately and publicly projects total sincerity. He relaxes by roaming around the woods near his home with his wife Muffet and their four young children. Occasionally he travels to Florida to sail (he was in the Navy from 1953 to 1956) and waterski...
...distort education at every level. While some schools overemphasize test taking, colleges occasionally reject low scorers with other talents that would benefit society as well as colleges themselves. Example: 85% of black high school seniors score below the current national average (375) on the verbal-aptitude test. Those scores reflect poor schooling, not the blacks' real potential, says the commission. For all races, the tests tend to mask special skills and interests...
Improvised Air. Young in the age of its dancers (the average is 22) as well as its history, the Joffrey (founded in 1956) has always had a nervous, half-improvised air about it, which may reflect the fact that it has no superstars and has been plagued by a distressingly high turnover in personnel. Last month, midway through its fall season at Manhattan's glum, ungraceful City Center, the company abruptly dismissed its fiery Spanish lead dancer, Luis Fuente; after several months of differences, Fuente irked management by suddenly and arbitrarily departing from the choreography in a meticulous Joffrey...
...speak the local language during negotiations, even if you can. Translators are more precise, and give both sides time to reflect before making replies...
...have maintained (Goodyear, Michelini and Tymo-czko, "What Ever Happened to the Radcliffe Merger," Harvard Bulletin, Oct. 26, 1970) that the public statements of high Harvard administrative officials with regard to the proposed merger of Harvard and Radcliffe reflect unspoken prejudices against women. The striking feature of Dean von Stade's letter is the ugly clarity with which he expresses his contempt for women. Yet the letter is important not as an expression of one man's personal views, but as a uniquely honest exposition of the opinions shared by high officials of the Harvard Administration. It is these...