Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tale for the Mirror, by Hortense Calisher. Human vagaries in exurbia and out of it. To be any good at all, short stories must be nearly perfect. These...
From Britain came a mighty roar. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan suggested that Acheson "has fallen into an error which has been made by quite a lot of people in the course of the last 400 years, including Philip of Spain, Louis XIV, Napoleon, the Kaiser, and Hitler." The Daily Mirror noted that Britain had been "written off" by another American in 1940 - "the rich, fainthearted Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the days of Dunkirk." The Manchester Guardian was less imperious -and more candid: "A former American Secretary of State who looks like...
Along the eastern shore of Hong Kong last week the waves rolled in with a tragic flotsam: the bodies of 32 refugees from Red China whose overloaded sampan swamped and sank in mirror-calm seas. They were grim evidence of the desperate craving of thousands of Chinese to make their way from the shackled mainland to the glitter of prosperous Hong Kong, whatever the dangers...
...father, Wolf Albach-Retty, was a celebrated actor, and is still a staple of the Vienna Volkstheater. Now divorced, the couple in those days had a retreat at Berchtesgaden, where Romy (a contraction of Rose-Marie) was raised by grandparents. There she playacted alone before her mother's mirror in the fairy-tale house among the snow-laden Bavarian firs...
Uncomfortable Awareness. Technically, the union was striking against New York's four strongest papers-the morning Times and News and the afternoon Journal-American and World-Telegram. Ostensibly, the union's agreement to permit the morning Herald Tribune and Mirror and the afternoon Post to continue publishing was based on the idea that this would allow New Yorkers to get something in the way of news to read. But behind this action was the uncomfortable awareness that the Post and Mirror are primarily too weak financially to withstand a strike of any duration. The publishers saw the four...