Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every reader, Borges believes, can see himself clearly and momentarily in the mirror of the book, each receiving a different reflection. The function of his art is to provide this brief personal insight...
...said John Davies, director general of the Confederation of British Industry, after emerging from No. 10. The Observer called devaluation "a brave act," but most of the British press took off after Harold Wilson's scalp. "This is D-day for Britain without the flags," said the Sunday Mirror. "The 'D' this time stands for disaster and disillusion as well as for devaluation." Since Wilson had consistently denied that he would ever devalue the pound, many Britons felt betrayed as well as disheartened. "I am quite shocked," said Sir Patrick Hennessy, chairman of Ford Motor...
...best poems are about women, lonely middle-aged women facing their own decay. "The Face" describes without a touch of comforting illusion, a long hard stare into the mirror...
...soul is to know itself it must look into a soul: the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror...
...unprecedented application of the Clayton Act, Federal District Judge Warren J. Ferguson last week ordered the Times Mirror Co., publisher of the Los Angeles Times, to divest itself of the San Bernardino Sun and Telegram, a pair of papers it acquired in 1964 for $15 million. San Bernardino is 60 miles east of Los Angeles, and the company contended that its acquisition of the two papers did not change the journalistic situation in that area because there never had been much competition between the Times and the San Bernardino papers. But the judge took a different tack...