Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, the author mentions how the themes of his book reflect his origins, "from Jewish parents who fled Hitler, and who tried in their transplanted lives to retain the balance between hope and reason which is called liberalism." William Ellery Channing also retained this balance, at a time when it was most delicate. He promoted the idea of a national literature, sought an American Milton enthusiastically while quietly harboring fears and doubts that America could produce one. The beauty of Delbanco's essay resides in its expansiveness: it opens outward from Channing's life to ask larger questions, and leaves...
When we can get past this heavy-handed language, Cohen's book is not bad. But we should expect more from a literate politician. Cohen concludes that he has been recording events without reflecting enough about them. He should have noticed this before he wrote the book. Perhaps some day he will reflect seriously on the political process. Until then, however, we must look elsewhere for an adequate account of life in the United States Senate...
Dismayed by the intensive coverage it had created, the Administration two weeks ago tried to downplay the story, which was "running about five times as big as it really is," according to a State Department official. Last week, White House Spokesman James Brady said that remark did not reflect the President's thinking. With the Administration unable to decide how big a story El Salvador was, the press was exercising its own news judgment. Says one network hand in El Salvador: "We've been told to do a piece on the effects of the war on the economy...
...dazzled the Washington Establishment and led to reports that Regan is a diminished, foundering figure. He does not seem that way. Like a wise division commander, he is moving to meld Stockman, the aggressive strike force chief, into an overall economic command structure that in the end will reflect nothing so much as the will and mind of President Ronald Reagan...
...each crime that creates those statistics there is a victim whose life has been ended, painfully altered or traumatically affected. No sampling can span the full range of outrage or reflect all the victims' agony, but here are some examples...