Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy presumably will reflect in part the views of General Marshall. It will be based on these premises: 1) that a disorganized, divided China is an undermining influence to world peace, now and in the future; 2) that a strong, unified and effective China is of the utmost importance to the success of the United Nations' efforts to establish world peace...
...only principle, the only tenable position, and nothing is gained by speaking as if it were." Compensating Pole. The other "tenable position," says Author Orton, is conserva tism. In it he sees the compensating pole of western civilized thought and conduct - indeed, "together these principles reflect the polarity of life itself, of all phenome nal existence. Force and inertia, action and reaction, change and stability, the dynamic and the static - without this universal dualism, meaning and reality, on the human plane at least, vanish into nothingness." Author Orton finds confirmation of the deep "political instinct of the English that...
...Perc, both leader and goad of the brothers, was make-up man for First National (later Warner Bros.), where he has stayed ever since. There he has quietly revolutionized makeup. First he invented the panchromatic base, a tan cream which would evenly reflect all lights, thus keep faces or lips from fading out. Then came the "hair lace wig," which added years of professional life to balding oldsters like Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make...
...ostracize composers whose music did not keep time to the Marxian metronome. Prokofiev's first Soviet piece, Symphonic Song, was scorned by Russian critics for its "morbid resignation" and its "tendencies of urbanized lyricism." Wrote Soviet critic A. Ostretsov: "We do not dispute Prokofiev's right to reflect the emotional world of 'superfluous' people in the West, with their rottenness and putrefaction . . . but we do not share the . . . humanistic sympathy with these persons." Prokofiev apparently weighed and understood the demands of Russia's musical dictatorship. He learned not to deviate from the acceptable line...
...clearly defined. Official feeling was embodied in an age-old, unwritten law of the Church that its prelates, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. The law is, in effect: any prelate whose personal conduct, past or present, gives rise to discussion or dissension which might reflect unfavorably on the Church must feel duty-bound-guilty or not-to renounce his dignity to prevent adverse discussion of the Church...