Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book's most infuriating passage, he describe pragmatically the superiority of the American bathroom to the Gothic cathedral as a mental stimulus: "But the bathroom, too, shelters the spirit, it tranquillizes and reassures, in surroundings of a celestial Whiteness, where the pipes and the faucets gleam and the mirror makes another liquid surface, which will render you, shaved, rubbed and brushed, a nobler and more winning appearance... It encourages self-dependence and prepares one to face the world, fortified, firm on one's feet, serene and with a mind like a diamond." There are two possible reactions of disgust...
...excitement started when Columbia University told about two experiments proving that the "parity law," one of the cornerstones of nuclear physics, is a man-made convention which does not bind nature except in special cases. According to the parity law, objects that are mirror images of each other must obey the same physical rules (see chart). Applied to nuclear physics about 30 years ago, this principle became extremely important. Theories that seemed to violate it were summarily rejected. Much of the structure of modern nuclear physics was erected on parity...
...mesons did no such thing. They shot out twice as many electrons in one direction. When a small current was passed through the coil the mesons turned around and shot their electrons in the other direction. This proved that mesons can be mirror twins (like right-hand and left-hand gloves) and still not behave in the same way. After the conclusive run of the experiment, says Dr. Lederman, "I called Lee on the telephone and told him, 'You're in!' " Parity was dead...
Speaking in the Ames Court Room at the Law School, Berman noted that Law students today become "great craftsmen," but do not learn proper trial techniques. He said that a trial lawyer must "learn to speak with an apparent sincerity," and must make sure that "his face does not mirror the disastrous blows" being struck on his case...
...Last week as Popo, 38, celebrated her first birthday as Abby Van Buren, she was the fastest rising lonelyheart columnist in the U.S. So quickly has her Dear Abby column caught on that it now appears in some 80 U.S. newspapers, from New York's garter-snapping Daily Mirror (circ. 842,023) to the sobersided Portland Oregonian (181,910), only a dozen fewer syndicate clients than carry sister Ann Landers, whose real name is Mrs. Jules ("Eppie") Lederer. This makes Abby the fourth-ranking U.S. lovelornist, after Dorothy Dix, Mary Haworth and Ann Landers...