Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Nowadays, when a California suburbanite calls himself a member of a "two-car family" he is using statistics as a mirror; he is putting himself in a Statistical Community...
...majority of Americans seek refuge behind a mirror that reflects only movements they themselves have generated...
...Government spending. For the first time in 20 years, national defense will account for a smaller proportion of total federal outlays (37%) than will such civilian programs as education, health, manpower training and social benefits (41%). On that score, Nixon's hold-the-line budget does indeed mirror the mood of a nation outraged at inflation, taxes and high interest rates, and weary of overseas burdens...
...dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." Brimming with messianic zeal, the movie general struts about North Africa as if he imagined himself a Carthaginian commander. And that is precisely what the real Patton thought he was. A mirror-gazing mystic, Patton believed in reincarnation and wrote odes to himself in his other lives. Today such attitudes in a draftee might bar him from service; yesterday they served to propel a general to victories...