Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing could have been less congenial to the spirit of modernism than Sargent's work, with its showcase view of human character. By the '30s, few writers were ready to endorse the social attitudes that his paintings reflect-the belief in a natural ruling class, a government above politics, that was bitterly expressed in Hilaire Belloc's epigram on an English general election...
...election was probably "engineered or guided by the leadership," and the results do not reflect any popular threat to its stability, Patrick G. Maddox, director of External Affairs for the Council on East Asian Studies, said yesterday...
...results reflect the leadership's willingness to accept non-communist political participation, but do not mean opposition to the CCP will be tolerated, Roy M. Hofheinz Jr., professor of Government, said yesterday...
...score does not fully reflect Harvard's control of the meet, as the Crimson led, 39-4, at one point and opted not to run up the score by swimming its strongest lineup in the second half...
...thor knows that through his wrinkled courtiers and faded coquettes he can show the entire range of human suffering and enlightenment, from birth to the grave - and, sometimes, beyond. If the tales sometimes seem melodramatic, too filled with coincidence or emotional trauma, well, so is the world they reflect. To Isaac Bashevis Singer, that arena is yet another story, a narrative he calls "God's novel." Its plot, he says, may be "inconsistent, sensational, antisocial, cryptic, decadent, vulgar." But, he admits, it "has suspense. One keeps reading it day and night." God knows, one could say the same...