Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government, and it was shopping for a buyer. Hopkins snapped up the two plants for only $2,500,000 cash, and every year since then Canadair has returned its original purchase price in profits. Though his company was still small, Hopkins searched around for a name that would better reflect his imaginative ambitions-and settled on General Dynamics...
...become increasingly clear that Dr. Oppenheimer has corrected whatever faults he may have had in the past. It has, at the same time, become evident that 1954 security standards were unduly narrow and arbitrary. Such criteria for defining security risk are not absolute and immutable, but must reflect the nation's changing security needs. The 1954 standards, which made it possible for valuable men such as Oppenheimer to be judged security risks, were unrealistic...
...exhibited appalling taste in the past, particularly in their church interiors. Old-fashioned parlor frills, shrines and plaster statues with painted faces resembling Kewpie dolls have no place in a tasteful church interior, and reduce it to the level of the 5 & 10? store. Church interiors and altars that reflect peaceful dignity and serene beauty are nearly always found among the Lutheran and Episcopal churches. It looks as though the Roman Catholics have taken a lesson from them...
...plot. The book is one vast notions counter of half-fashioned ideas on life, love and literature. Its central proposition is the trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality quirks that sometimes go with it. At its frequent worst, it is a mishmash of joyless fornication, head-splitting hangovers, and a neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word...
...added that, on the other hand, several department members feared the small number of Economics summas awarded might tend to reflect badly on the field's students and faculty in the eyes of the rest of the University...