Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exchanges and thought you might like to read a few samples. For some reason TIME'S story of the Kinsey Report produced a quantity of poems, several on Artist Artzybasheff's cover portrait of Dr. Kinsey. The theme: the doctor's bow tie sprinkled with the Mirror of Venus symbols, the biologist's sign of female. The writers wanted to know where such ties could be bought. The reply they received...
After finishing the Grand Tour with Boswell, the reader knows him too well to agree with all of this. The Journal, a means of study far superior to the psychiatrist's one-way mirror, allows us to know Boswell better than anyone did in his own generation. Whatever is the final judgment on his "Original humor: or "knowledge of human nature," one statement is undeniable. Boswell is a singular being...
Fever of Reality. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in 1859, called the camera "the mirror with a memory." Americans, more than any other people, have become used to seeing the world and themselves in that mirror-staring closely at birth and death, the torment of war and the pleasures of peace, the acts of history and nature, the faces of leaders and of nameless masses. Americans are wrapped in photographs ; in newspapers, magazines, movies, billboards, the camera shows them the microbe as big as a face, a face as big as a city block, an entire city as plainly as their...
Gorilla at Large (20th Century-Fox, 3-D and flattie) escapes from an amusement park, says Producer Leonard Goldstein, "and winds up in a mirror maze . . . So you have about twelve gorillas popping out in 3-D from the mirror. We also hide him in a diving bell, and he submerges, and he gets on a roller coaster . . . That's the only thing 3-D is good...
Feeling of a Conqueror. Looking into Freud's childhood is like looking at psychoanalysis studying its reflection in a mirror. All the principal Freudian units are, quite "unconsciously," making their first grand march through the streets of Wonderland-with lusty Private Libido (infantile sexuality) beating his big drum, and General Repression sternly rebuking Major Oedipus (for jealousy of father coupled with excessive love of mother). And yet an air of medieval superstition mingles with this up-to-date atmosphere. Sigmund was "born in a caul," i.e., with part of his prenatal envelope still swaddling him, and an old woman...