Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tattered, its once-youthful stars well past middle age. Even the exhibits had lost most of their punch-Man Ray's ticking metronome with a staring eye impaled on the blade, entitled Object to Destroy; Marcel Duchamp's bearded and mustachioed version of the Mona Lisa; a mirror into which visitors peered until they saw the title, Portrait of an Imbecile...
...impatient of Northern reporters who write stories criticizing segregation in Dixie, one of North Carolina's most influential citizens is a sharp-tongued Yankee newspaperman who unabashedly derides discrimination in any form. His name is Harry Golden. A one-time promotion man for New York's Daily Mirror and evening Post, rumpled, roly-poly Golden, 54, has published the bimonthly Carolina Israelite (circ. 11,500) since he settled in Charlotte, N.C. 15 years...
Barnum's Blood Brother. Williams believes that society in any stage of evolution gets the newspapers it deserves. "The press," he says, "is the mirror of its age because the degree of authority and independence it is permitted to exercise, or is able to seize for itself, and the nature of its influence on public opinion, throw light on the real balance of power in a society." Newspapers can no longer influence readers as they did when government was less complex and the electorate less educated. As the phenomenally successful Lord Northcliffe once told Daily Mail staffers...
...Though there were few instances of deliberate distortion during Britain's 1955 general-election campaign, a University of Manchester study of the major London dailies showed that the biggest-circulation newspapers, the Laborite Daily Mirror and the right-wing Daily Express, gave election material less than 6% of their total news space. *Noting with approval that Churchill had himself won a $14,000 libel suit against the Sunday People (TIME, Oct. 22), Evelyn Waugh wrote in the Spectator last week: "No one who knows Mr. Randolph Churchill and wishes to express distaste for him should ever...
...extra duties was welcome to them." For more than a half-century, Edna Chase gracefully collected unclaimed duties. By the time she retired as editor in chief in 1952, she had carried high fashion from the salons of Paris to the sidewalks of Wichita, and expanded Vogue from a mirror of New York society into an international arbiter of taste, a cultural force icily confident of its ability to decide what the world's females should wear. "Vogue," Editor Chase once simply explained, "is a well-bred magazine...