Word: reflects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 in the Dunes) is vice president of Sofu's company and its chief ceramicist; his beautiful daughter, Kasumi, 45, also a vice president, is almost as celebrated a practitioner of ikebana as her father...
...signs are everywhere, and proliferating. Some of them are trivial but telling; others seem to reflect yet another shift in the national mood and the social mode. If the signs are to be believed-and sociologists are sure to debate their significance-the cool-hip chic that has held sway since the 1960s, with its scorn of sentiment and its do-your-own-thing code, is giving way gradually to something suspiciously like a new romanticism. Says Psychologist Sol Gordon, professor of child and family studies at Syracuse University: "Americans no longer want to be cool; they want...
...ardent fans in filmdom, Begelman is a show-biz wizard who helped save a major studio from bankruptcy. To his enemies, he is a relentless competitor whose prominence and prestige reflect the mercenary standard of Hollywood. New York-born and Yale-educated, Begelman elbowed his way into entertainment as an agent. Among his early clients was Judy Garland; in 1967 she and her husband Sid Luft brought legal action against Begelman and his then partner Freddie Fields for misdirecting part of Judy's earnings into their own pockets. Judy dropped the suit a year later, but Luft remains bitter...
...results do not reflect a successful minority recruitment program. Of the 124 black students in the Class of 1981, for example, Jewett says that most come from middle-class backgrounds. More importantly, as Jewett points out, "the applicant pool, even with respect to minority applicants, tends in background to come from middle-class communities...
Harvard freshmen interviewed yesterday all said they thought the survey's findings accurately reflect the political leanings of the Class...