Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what their weddings will be like. How else could it be their day?" she said. "The return to tradition beats the days of getting married in swimming pools, but I fear some of this emphasis will turn the wedding into a lock-step series of events that don't reflect the couple's style. Those I interviewed sounded eager to have all the planning over with...
Ronald Reagan is not a man given to introspection. When asked to reflect on the source of his personal appeal or his uncanny sense of the national pulse, he is likely to answer (as he does on many topics) with an anecdote. In an interview in the Oval Office last week with TIME White House Correspondents Barrett Seaman and David Beckwith, the President gave glimpses into his character and popularity by reminiscing about events in his life that helped shape his outlook...
With such difficult problems facing the larger region, Shultz chose an itinerary that was likely to accentuate the positive side of U.S. dealings in the Pacific rim. He selected allies who tend to be receptive to his "businessman's diplomacy," and whose policies reflect his favorite themes: rising democracy, a comeback for capitalism and free trade. Thus the Secretary flew first to Hong Kong, a bastion of free enterprise on the tip of China, and ended his trip with a stopover in Palau, a U.S. territory in the South Pacific that voted in February to become semi-independent while granting...
...invention and more than a little cause for concern. On the one hand, television unites in common perceptions a disparate people spread across a broad continent. Such an immediate and inclusive forum would seem an unquestioned boon to Democracy. Such is not entirely the case. Although television appears to reflect marvelous diversity, it in fact fosters uniformity. Varieties of American speech, fashions and opinions are modified toward sameness by the examples of what millions of Americans watch. It also seems to me that television achieves part of its power by appealing to human weaknesses. The habit of viewing it does...
...customary on election day, Austrian voters donned their Sunday finest before going to the polls to choose a new President. The formality seemed to reflect a widespread somberness as they cast their ballots in the final round of a five-month presidential campaign that had evolved into a painful referendum on the country's past. The race was overshadowed by allegations that Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary-General (1972-1982) and candidate of the conservative People's Party, had lied about his knowledge of Nazi atrocities committed while he served as an officer in the German army during...