Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actions & Gestures. Like a lazy mocking mirror of human folly flow the canals of Venice. Novelist Pasinetti tellingly evokes "the bride of the sea," with its funereal gondolas, its swish of steps and voices and waves on marble landings, its wheeling pigeons under a volley of church bells. Pasinetti was born in his setting, is now a professor of Italian at the University of California at Los Angeles. He wrote his novel in Italian and then translated it into English on a tape recorder, a method that gives the book a convincing, though sometimes too pronounced, foreign accent...
...Grofé's musical method was simple: if you want to evoke the idea of a gun fight in a saloon, fire a gun; if it is fire engines you are after, ring a fire bell. Ferde's 1933 Tabloid Suite, inspired by the New York Daily Mirror, was even scored for typewriters. The San Francisco Suite consisted of four descriptive movements-"Gold Rush," "Bohemian Nights," "Mauve Decade" and "1906-1960"-all of them as cliché-ridden as any Mirror Sunday feature. But the composition was stuffed with enough acoustical effects to keep any Grof...
...ladies, published in 1913, by a refined New England novelist named Eleanor H. Porter, was an irresistible tearjerker that drenched the pillows of grandma's generation and added to the language a new word for the sort of softheaded optimist who can see no evil, especially in the mirror, and who hysterically insists on confusing goo with good. The story distilled Victorian sentiment to its treacly essence, and readers of all ages lapped it up. More than a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, and by 1920 the book had been made into a Broadway hit and a Hollywood...
...please Norman Chandler. A man with a strong sense of empire and dynasty,* his action in stepping aside for his son Otis was a characteristic way of readying the Times for whatever the future may hold (he will stay on as president of the parent Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co., which also controls the ailing afternoon Mirror-News...
Biggest and best exhibit was called simply Allegory. It featured an umbrella, and a bar mirror to which had been affixed a cascade of crumpled tin. Bar mirrors are a bore, as filled with eyes sometimes as tapioca and they have a blandly unpleasant way of catching the drinker unawares. The tin in Allegory made a witty tasteful substitute for reflection. Esthetically, the umbrella, too, was a brilliant stroke, its sharply precise form and cloth texture in telling contrast to the gleaming glass and crumpled metal