Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international do-gooders who are not quite diplomats, not quite newspapermen, and not quite experts on anything. A correspondent of the Erwin News Agency, (headquarters in Washington), he had broadcast interviews with U.N. notables over a Manhattan F.M. radio station, served as a tipster for the London Daily Mirror. He had a marked talent for big-name-dropping, and for catching rides in official delegation cars. He made himself popular-particularly with the delegation from Siam. Weyman had let it be known that in World War II he personally rescued Siam's Prince Wan Waithayakon from a Japanese prison...
...Prompting New York Mirror Columnist Dan Parker to suggest some new Olympic events. Samples: "the heel-and-toe walkout," "the running high dudgeon," "the erroneous conclusion jump," and "hurling the invective...
...much lamented as Dr. Faustus laments the sale and riddance of his soul for likewise by debunking the critic, theatre has lost the means of viewing herself to her mind's eye and must henceforth don the powder and greasepaint, the eyebrow and wig less the aid of the mirror and the important light that reflects therein. And so in the darkness of ignorance under the illusion of being in the light, without a critical past, without a discriminating present, without the dynamic of channeled volition working from someplace to somewhere. American theatre stumbles along the graveled road of prejudice...
...Robert Ruark, Earl Wilson, Lee Bedford's "Southern Exposure," Carter's own weekly, "Looking at the South," already syndicated in 16 other papers). In the lead Times editorial, Publisher Carter tapped out a clean-cut statement of his own credo: "We want [the Times] to be a mirror in which the community can see its full face. If the face appears smudged sometimes it will not be the fault of the newspaper . . . We won't seek controversy for the sake of controversy or shun it for the sake of peace . . ." It looked as if things would soon...
...extremely difficult" to replace MacArthur, and replaced it with a biography of General Ridgway. Some morning papers' "early" editions had already headlined a story by U.P.'s White House Correspondent Merriman Smith that President Truman had decided against any rebuke to MacArthur (headlined the New York Daily Mirror: WHITE HOUSE WON'T CENSURE MACARTHUR). A.P. had put out a similar story. The Portland Oregon Journal had to yank its editorial that "Truman couldn't fire MacArthur even if he wanted to . . ." Apparently, only NBC's Earl Godwin emerged as a prophet with honor...