Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arbiter of national taste, a woman of contrasts whose feet are planted firmly in the subway while her tiara punches the clouds. On the shore of Lake Michigan stands big-shouldered Chicago, a gambling man, a gandy dancer, a latter-day John Bunyan whose self-conscious gazes into his mirror reflect the pride and simplicity of the U.S. heartland. There is intellectual Boston, a lady of quality with whalebone traditions, who has hitched up her skirt and gone to work without losing her manners, keeping her balance with an infusion of wild Irish blood into her Yankee veins...
...poems as "The Value of Gold." To expand categories slightly, Mr. Gunn's whole milieu resembles that early-seventeenth-century world of religious nightmare, alchemical daydream, and academic short-circuit, in which an inherited logic grinned at itself and morbidity became bumptious. In one of the 1954 poems, "A Mirror for Poets," Mr. Gunn described that age, so obviously like our own as to make the comparison banal, as a "violent time" which demanded its right to be taken seriously by whispering to the writer, "For feel my fingers in your pia mater. I am a cruelly insistent friend...
...Detroit." His wisdom will be seined with questions that range upward in difficulty from "Are there promiscuous men?" to "Does promiscuity itself constitute a threat to our society?" Unsurprisingly, NBC's Specials for Women have been showered with awards from organizations like Fame magazine and Radio-TV Mirror. The Specials for Women are reasonably good shows, marked on TV's achievement curve, but they are not what they purport to be: serious studies of women at the crossroads...
...Life in a Play. The play that best proves it is The Glass Menagerie. In it Williams held a mirror up to memory and caught upon it the breath of three lives: his mother's, his sister's and his own. In a lower-middle-class apartment in a Mid western city, Amanda Wingfield ("an exact portrait of my mother," says Williams) tries to cope with a peevish present by chattering of a fancied past. The son Tom (Williams) suffocates in a shoe factory and goes to movies to daydream of escape. The daughter Laura (Williams' sister...
...relationships with other children and adults who are not relatives, in his reactions to their problems and peculiarities, Seryozha demonstrates his own view of life in general, and adults in particular. And the experiences of the two older boys he constantly follows around mirror both his fears and ambitions...