Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full Explanation. In Cleveland, Mrs. Norma Peden told a divorce court that when she asked her husband to explain a package of love letters from a nightclub entertainer, he laughed, said: "This is a modernistic world," and broke a mirror over her head...
...angry fist into his palm. His conversation was not for quotation, but the papers soon blossomed out with stories that Ike would not run on the same ticket with Nixon unless Nixon came out of his trouble "clean as a hound's tooth."* The tabloid New York Mirror reflected the indirect statements in a more direct headline: EXPLAIN OR QUIT, IKE TO NIXON...
...What we lack," says Dr. Kubie sadly, "is a magic mirror which would make it possible for [an] individual to look 10 or 20 years into the future to see the price that he will pay for [the] nagging problem which he is able to lock up in some watertight compartment today...
Lacking a magic mirror, Dr. Kubie offers physicians a rough test for detecting psychiatric disturbances: "If a patient can use common-sense advice effectively, no more is needed, and our patient cannot have been very ill. When [commonsense advice] rolls off the proverbial duck's back, then that duck is ill, and needs technical help as early as it can be brought to bear...
...children, unable to pronounce certain consonants, sound as if they were still talking baby talk. Such children are often unaware of their own faulty articulation. They must be carefully drilled in different sounds, listen to recordings of their own voices, practice lists of nonsense syllables in front of the mirror...