Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Economic Reversal. Sociologically as well as politically, Sampson found, Europe's pulls are mainly away from union. Television, for instance, unifies mostly in the sense that more and more Europeans hum the same pop tunes. Newspapers still tend to mirror only their own narrow societies. Nor do Europe's armies of tourists represent the first wave of a new pan-Europeanism. "The obsession of the new mass tourism is not to see a new country but to find two commodities: the sun and the sea." In Sampson's opinion, even the automobile, Europe's latest symbol...
...Look at yourself in the mirror sometime," John said, and then turned away...
Some of the members of the group went down to the baths. The boy was restless, however, and went back to his room with Paul. He looked at himself in the mirror: his eyes were open very wide; he did look stoned, bewildered, afraid. So he and Paul stayed in their room to witness the final event of that Monday--the boy's second breakdown...
...actors and actresses play themselves down, their films play them up. Movies are wide-screened, stereophonic and 30 times larger than life?so are actors. What is important is that many of the young actors can separate the reflected face on the screen from the original in the mirror...
...trying to help is Lionel Rubinoff, an associate professor of philosophy at Toronto's York University. For Rubinoff, the image of evil has never been farther away than the nearest mirror. That individual man is both the creator and perpetrator of evil is hardly a new idea, and Rubinoff acknowledges his indebtedness to thinkers from Plato to Sartre. It is, however, in the analysis of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that the assumption underlying The Pornography of Power is most readily grasped. Of Stevenson's portrayal of the ambivalence of human nature, Rubinoff...