Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perfect Intuition. With all this, she gained confidence. "Most beautiful women are not beautiful enough to suit themselves," she says. "I have never believed I was beautiful. Once in a while, I will sidle up to a mirror and plant a kiss on it and squeal something about how beautiful I am, but I am just kidding. I would rather you^ tell me I am beautiful than intelligent, because I am sure of my intelligence. I have not accepted the physical part of me yet." Even though it has a star of the quality of Bob Cummings, Living Doll, which...
...somewhat slick presentation of a worldwide range of buildings and their creators. For players, kibitzers, or even for collectors who hardly know QR3 from KB7, Chess by Hans and Siegfried Wichmann. (Crown; $15) is a comprehensive, pleasantly illustrated history of chess pieces. For those who like social history, Mirror of Fashion by Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf (McGraw-Hill; $26.50) is a copious survey of European costume from the French Revolution to 1929, while Leather Armchairs by Charles Graves (Coward-McCann; $7.95) is an anecdote-laden, fascinating-in-spite-of-itself account of all the major London clubs. What may well prove...
They do not know what a mirror is, or what an orange is. They do not know their own names. In slum schools across the U.S., normally intelligent children come to kindergarten and first grades innocent of the elementary knowledge and aspirations of their middle-class contemporaries. This mental poverty, caused by their parents' often shocking ignorance and inarticulation, starts the kids off in school so ill-equipped that they slip helplessly backward as they go on (central Harlem eighth-graders, for example, test almost three years behind other New York City students). Thus begins the vicious circle...
...Dancing. Novelist Edwin O'Connor has always created characters with a tongue or two in their heads. In his first play, his hero is a retired vaudevillian, Waltzing Daniel Considine. Burgess Meredith acts, sings, and dances the part as if gazing nostalgically into the splintered mirror of a show-biz Narcissus grown...
...light," said Bonnard, and he was an ingenious supplicant. In the checkerboard tiles that pattern his work, the color changes to harmonize with nearby colors. Nude flesh becomes a chameleon mirror for interior hues; a bathtub becomes an irregular cocoon for the human form. Bonnard's pictures are made of optical bewilderment and caprices of color...