Word: reflectively
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...first, that source would appear to be the University itself; its professors and libraries, the structure of its courses, should provide incentive enough for any man. Yet it does not. Craig Comstock seems to reflect a widespread attitude when he writes that "at a college so proud of its academic tradition, we hear little talk about courses except, that is, about exams, curves, and grades....Courses, by and large, are pursued in a social vacuum. It means nothing that students gather in a lecture hall, for they could as well stay in their rooms and watch the show on television...
...there are diplomas that we riot about diplomas; perhaps it is because there is commencement that things that matter are deferred. We learn, we mark with pompous festival the end of learning, and then we do. And both the character of our learning and the character of our careers reflect our acceptance of this categorization of which diplomas and commencement are our symbol...
...Reason will not happen spontaneously," Demos said. "You will have to try with all your might to reflect dispassionately...
...Ellender, who once said, "I wish there were a Trujillo in every country of South and Central America." Other apologists, ignoring Trujillo's terror, pointed to the Dominican Republic's sharply improved per-capita yearly income ($225, about average for Latin America). But the average did not reflect the disproportionate share of the wealth acquired by the ubiquitous Trujillo family through The Benefactor's standard 10% cut on all public-works contracts, his heavy interests in sugar, textiles, cattle, insurance, and his monopolies of salt, cigarettes, lumber, matches, milk and peanut oil. When the coffin lid shut...
Already jobs are multiplying faster than they did early in the recovery from the 1958 recession. The Labor Department last week reported that between mid-April and mid-May, employment rose 1,044,000 and unemployment fell 194.000. Most of the new jobs simply reflect the normal spring surge in hirings. But five major industrial centers lost their unhappy rating as areas with substantial (6% or more) unemployment, leaving 96 on the list. And in April, for the first time in a year. U.S. factories hired more men than were laid off or quit...