Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected and self-appointed leaders, by petition and by protest, singly and collectively, the citizens of our urban environment expect the university to act as a responsible and enlightened landlord, employer and neighbor. Little more than a legitimate concern for its own self-interest will lead the university to reflect seriously and act positively on the obligations of its urban citizenship...
...named for the prince of Kiev who brought Christianity to Russia in A.D. 988. His emissaries, the story goes, were so taken by the beauty of the Byzantine liturgy and Constantinople's churches that they urged the prince to adopt that mode of Christianity. Vladimir's churches reflect the Russian efforts to carry on the Byzantine architectural tradition. The most spectacular is the Cathedral of the Assumption, whose gleaming gold cupola is visible for miles around...
...same overpermissive parents more often than not make irrational demands for high marks in school and insist on superhygienic cleanliness so that their children reflect well on them in public. Such families, says Bettelheim, exploit their children to fulfill their own "narcissistic needs"; they choose to follow Freud where it suits their convenience, and are as demanding of conformity as "the worst Victorian parent" where it does not. For the children, Bettelheim says, the result has been a "senseless" uncertainty about their own identities that turns to self-hate and later to resentment of the world at large...
Labor Pressures. Prices in Italy are on the rise again after two years of stability. Lately, the annual rate of increase has climbed to 3%, and the potential for further escalation is great. Labor contract clauses that raise wages to reflect the cost of living are being invoked once more, and 3,000,000 workers in the steel, auto and engineering industries will be seeking further large boosts this fall...
...most important harbinger of gains against inflation was an easing of the high interest rates that have been increasingly pinching borrowers this year. The decline reflected a drop in corporate demand for loans to finance expansion and inventory accumulation, which in turn appeared to reflect a lessening of the inflationary psychology that has caused businessmen to borrow in anticipation of ever-rising costs and prices...