Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...best all-round book on the subject for the general reader in years. Absorbing, gracefully written, freshly thought out, it is, in addition, that rare hybrid, a coffee-table book with both brains and beauty. The glossy pages are strewn with well-selected (though skimpily captioned) illustrations that vividly reflect the squalor and especially the sentiment of 19th century England...
...declining" sport. If Wolfe merely ran on like that, he might be dismissed as a frivolous type who has done little more than shoot fish in a brandy snifter. Happily, the gathering−and with it Tom Wolfe's look-homeward-recording-angel prose−Soon begins to reflect depths of confusion and true social comedy. There is a remarkable moment when Panther Defense Minister Don Cox talks of police harassment, evoking the Reichstag fire (blacks now, Jews next is the thought), then reads the Declaration of Independence to justify talk about Revolution Now. Eventually Bernstein and Guests Otto...
Bigger Tent. According to MacGregor, Nixon now intends to practice the "politics of inclusion." Says MacGregor: "I have tried to make the point that the Republican Party is a big tent, and should be bigger. Various Republicans reflect different constituencies, but all of these are the President's constituencies...
...language is scurrilous. Such words reflect either a moral self-aggrandizement on the part of the authors or an incitement to actions which can only be destructive of the University as a place which respects honest, even if profound, differences...
...lower rates, but consumers will benefit last and least. Home mortgage rates have declined only a minuscule amount from this year's peaks, and now average about 81% nationwide. Lenders predict little change soon, among other reasons because it usually takes at least six months for mortgages to reflect changed conditions in the money market...