Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worried. What does Mao's latest purge signify? Has Red China finally been driven mad by the mounting U.S. military pressure in Viet Nam? Will a human wave of Chinese soldiers suddenly cascade into Southeast Asia as it did into Korea 16 years ago? Or does the uproar reflect nothing more than an internal struggle for party leadership? No one can be certain. Is the work of the Red Guards just a buildup to another announcement of a disastrous harvest? Elements of all these speculations seemed to be at work in Peking's purge...
...national political dance. "I don't want to squeeze out the West in the field of dance," Moiseyev told the All-Union Seminar of Soviet Ballroom Dancing Teachers in Moscow. "But I do wish to actively express our ideology through it." The dance, Moiseyev says, "should reflect the collectivism of the Soviet way of life in opposition to the individualism of the West, where each couple, even on the dance floor, acts as if it were alone in the whole wide world and was dancing its last dance...
...last week by posting along Peking's major streets a "Declaration of War on the Old World." The Guards' vow: "To mercilessly destroy every hotbed of revisionism." Down the streets they rampaged, roughing up Chinese in foreign dress, ordering shopkeepers to stop selling books except those that reflect Mao's thinking and to rid themselves of imported articles or luxury items. In the place of cosmetics, ordinary floor-scrubbing soap was put on sale for facial care. Also on the taboo list: goldfish, exotic birds, flowers, antiques, elaborate coffins, signs with gilded instead of red lettering...
...Finley starts by having her students read a haiku together, clapping in unison with the syllables, and then individually describe the images the poem conveys. To set them off on their own haiku, she gives them the first two lines, asks them to supply a third. The responses often reflect the down-to-earth quality of children's imaginations. Once, for example, she gave her daughter the lines
More to Come. Even so, official figures do not yet reflect some of the biggest recent price hikes, notably the early August 2.3% boost in sheet-steel prices, which promises to push up the price tags on everything from nails to new autos this fall. And there is much more to come. Cement makers have boosted prices by 10? to 20? per bbl. in several areas, effective in November or January. On Sept. 1, Detroit's unionized barbers will increase men's hair cuts from $2.25 to $2.50. Incensed by that "annual holdup," the Detroit News only half...