Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individual interpretation accompanied by universal cooperation . . . This is progress: learning by past experiences and applying the knowledge toward a fuller life ... a greater tolerance for others who may arrive at their conceptions of God and truth in regions different from our own. The past is like a rear-view mirror of a car. If you drive carefully, observing safety rules, you must refer to it . . To insure [progress, we must insure] the freedom to explore, create, originate and improvise . . . This is why we've coupled religion and jazz, two of the mediums of communication which speak a universal language...
...steering post set deep inside. In a crash, the driver would hit the flexible rim instead of the rigid post. Other safety items: door latches designed so as not to spring open on impact, a glareless instrument panel, seat belts (optional), a shatter-resistant rear-view mirror...
Silence & Scream. In Britain, where per capita daily newspaper buying is the highest in the world (615 papers sold daily for every 1,000 population), readers have a choice ranging from the no headlines of the uncompromising Times to the screaming headlines of the irrepressible Laborite Daily Mirror, biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,725,122). The well-written Manchester Guardian (circ. 156,154) and the Daily Telegraph (circ. 1,048,776) are slowly picking up readers, but the force of their voices is muffled by the nation's popular dailies, which provide the bulk of the news...
...there are still two classes: the educated and the uneducated. The educated present Britain's face to the world as a nation of people who are readers of the Times, Telegraph and Guardian. The uneducated present no face to the world because their faces are buried in the Mirror, Sketch, Herald, and all the other popular papers...
This is a first novel from the familiar outskirts of suburban discontent where the personalities are sometimes as split-level as the houses. Novelist Sloan Wilson, 35, English instructor at the University of Buffalo, is a small mirror of J. P. Marquand and he has written a kind of Sincerely, Willis Wayde in reverse. His hero is a thirtyish young man who rather naively decides that the only way he can achieve inner peace and fiscal happiness is by selling his soul to a large Manhattan corporation, and starts to do so only to find that...