Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor Party is already in full cry. Describing the Tory selection process as viciously undemocratic, the Laborite Daily Mirror wrote: "Butler has been betrayed, Maudling insulted, Macleod ignored, Heath treated with contempt and Hailsham giggled out of court by the jester in hospital." Deriding the Tories' "aristocratic cabal," Harold Wilson last week took aim and declared scornfully: "In this ruthlessly competitive, scientific, technical, industrial age, a week of intrigues has produced a result based on family and hereditary connections. The leader has emerged-an elegant anachronism...
...York had twelve daily newspapers of general circulation in 1930; now it has six. Despite the rising number of surburban newspapers, the trend toward one-newspaper towns is clear and dangerous. The economics of journalism being what they are, the future looks bleak. Ask not for whom the Mirror folds; it folds for thee...
Still, it was sad when the Mirror died, because it is always sad when a great metropolitan daily disappears. At least the Mirror could have been improved; it had potential, and now that potential is gone. Founding a newspaper is an expensive business these days; when one dies, another is not likely to spring up in its place...
...Hearst management claimed that the Mirror was a victim of last winter's prolonged newspaper strike. Actually, the owners had been looking for an excuse to close down the paper for years, and the strike simply came along at a useful moment. In the past three years the rapidly fading Hearst empire has had a hand in the deaths of half a dozen large dailies, including the Boston Evening American and the Los Angeles Examiner...
...concept of parity is quite straight forward. A right handed glove viewed in a mirror appears as a left handed glove and vice versa. The act of looking into the mirror is the essence of the idea of parity. Parity conservation implies that physical laws do not depend upon handedness; a left and right glove dropped from the top of Holyoke Center will reach the ground together. Even on the atomic level physical laws do not depend upon handedness. (In fact they must be explicitly independent of any reference to "left" or "right...