Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Does TV cause riots? Are children growing insensitive to brutality because of crime programs? So went the questions put last week by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower. The commission, in effect, wondered whether TV is the mirror or the molder of society. After three days of hearings, it wound up with a full range of conflicting answers...
Said Goldenson: "We are presently reaping the harvest of having laid it on the line at a time when many Americans are reluctant to accept the images reflected by the mirror we have held up to our society." Goodman seconded the notion. "The medium," he said, "is blamed for the message." In defense of crime programs, Stanton maintained that "throughout history, violence has had a prominent place in art, drama and literature...
Today, only one pay system remains alive-but not well-in Hartford, Conn. When the viewer tunes in at night to station WHCT, the image on the screen looks like a shattered mirror, and the audio twitters like a rewinding tape recorder. Subscribers interested in the show dial a code number on an un scrambling device perched atop their set. Automatically, the picture and sound come in clear and loud, and a tape inside the decoding box totes up a charge of 50? to $1.50 a show. Every month, the tape is pulled out of the box as a statement...
...mostly affluent, some in the millionaire bracket, but they earned their money rather than inheriting it. There are no blooded patricians in the lot, just strivers who have acted out the middle-class dream. Thus, as much as any dozen individuals can, Richard Nixon's new Cabinet members mirror the qualities of their boss, of the campaign he waged, of the aspirations of the constituency that elected...
NOLAN confronts us with startling images from this lurid and abortive voyage. His illustrations suggest monotypes -- brilliant rag strokes of detail. The reader -- hypocrite, mirror-image of the poet -- peers from another of Nolan's paintings. Only the essential features of the face are defined -- in heavy skeletal patterns. The obscure background overcomes the face's body. We are forced to recognize the identity of the face, the soul. "Its BOREDOM.... This obscene beast chain-smokes yawning for the guillotine--you--hypocrite Reader--my double--my brother...