Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson measure as an effort to set up a "commissar of the morals of the American people." A Johnston Office spokesman called it a "police state bill." Chairman Roy Brewer of the Motion Picture Industry Council described it as "the first step toward totalitarianism." In the Los Angeles Mirror Columnist Florabel Muir asked: "I 'wonder how many U.S. Senators could pass a purity test?" In a column titled "Look Who's Talking!" the Hollywood Reporter's William R. ("Billy") Wilkerson pointed out that "Parnell Thomas is in jail for stealing Government funds . . . Andrew May is in jail...
...ladies in T-shirts and shorts threw tomatoes at each other. Nick Gulas, a Nashville promoter, proudly announced a Seven Girl Rassle Royal (every girl battling for herself) at the Hippodrome. A widow who described herself as attrac., vivac., affect. & sinc. advertised for a husband in the Los Angeles Mirror. Her reasons: "Wd. enjoy mat. rt. man bec. I did enjoy marriage & comp. Very sinc. Exchange ref. & rec. snap...
...Patched Mirror. The Waste Land is easier on the ear than on the mind. It is like a kaleidoscopic mirror held up to the age-a patched mirror which at first seems to reflect only a heap of broken images, but which, to a longer view, blends them into a single bizarre picture, at once as strange and as familiar as one's own face (or one's own city) seen in a recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate...
Some of the splinters mirror images from other poems, from legend, or from history. These references invite the reader to measure the squalor of his day against past splendors-Elizabeth and Leicester in a red & gold barge on the Thames contrasted with an anonymous London girl of today, in a canoe on the same Thames, being seduced without pleasure, without protest ("My people humble people who expect / Nothing...
Most of the processing work is done by remote control. The quieter isotopes can be watched through glass or plastic. The stronger ones must be watched with mirrors, as Perseus watched Medusa reflected in his polished shield. The gamma rays they send out pass right through a mirror and do not strike the worker who is watching from one side...