Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinmoy, Indian spiritual master and director of the United Nations Meditation Group, gave one copy of each of his 300 books to the University at a ceremony in Hilles Library yesterday afternoon...
...from responsibility for running his own life and raising his children. Yet the modern social scientific approach has also increased man's sense of responsibility, for it suggests he can solve his problems only through the use of scientific techniques and that it is therefore incumbent on him to master these techniques. The socialization of reproduction has succeeded, argues Lasch, in "making people unable to provide for their own needs without the supervision of trained experts." Although capitalism still lauds the family as the foundation of a stable society, the educative, economic and protective functions of the family are gradually...
Lasch seems to imply that the triumph of social science effectively furthered the aims of self-appointed masters of social control. He writes of the socialization of production that "the industrialists...kept to themselves the knowledge of the process as a whole," while creating the vast armies of managers and labor. The socialization of reproduction, argues Lasch, amounted to a deliberate attempt to reduce parents "in the same way" to a passive dependence on a master...
...traditionally hermetic culture. He is an accomplished painter, in both Oriental and Occidental styles. His spiny wooden and metal sculptures have been exhibited in New York, Milan and Paris. He is considered by some to be among his country's finest calligraphers. The ikebana that the Grass Moon master teaches and practices appeals to modern Japanese-and Westerners-for whom visual impact is more important than spiritual complexities...
...Wafu (Harmonious Wind), a master ikebanist of the Misho school, young Sofu found himself disenchanted by what he called the "shackles of tradition. You could produce a masterpiece only when you succeeded in emulating 17th century masters in all possible details." At 18 he rebelled and invented an ikebana all his own. When he told his father it represented "an extension of his individualism," Wafu slapped his face. Seven years later the upstart left home to found his own school where his works could reflect his "burning and brimming emotion." Now his son, Hiroshi, 50, a famed film director (Woman...