Word: mirrors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the hero's flaw, great tragedy holds a mirror up to man's virtues. It girds playgoers with borrowed strength by showing how man may bear the unbearable. Great comedy, on the other hand, holds a mirror up to man's follies and vices. Where tragedy argues that man is a marvel, comedy insists that he is a fool. Tragedy elevates; comedy deflates...
...MIRROR OF AMERICA...
...respectively, but the totals were less than in previous elections. The tiny village of Briare (TIME, April 25), a near-perfect voting profile of France in the six previous elections, lost its sole distinction in the seventh by voting 54% in favor of the referendum?almost the mirror opposite of France's 53% rejection. The city of Paris turned down the referendum 56% to 44%, and it could not win a majority even in the chic 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, the silk-stocking districts of Paris, and normally solid Gaullist. Women voters, who have made up another Gaullist bastion...
...program of Turina, Beethoven and Chopin, Bialoguski had his moments of stiffness, and his technique was limited by the tendency of his left arm to mirror the movements of his right. But even by professional standards, his clear, straightforward performances were adequate; by any other standards, they were remarkable. He got five curtain calls, plus a scattering of cheers from some of his patients, who had rented...
...maria, or seas, as well as on two separate highland sites. In Apollo 11, the astronauts will stray no more than 50 ft. away from their craft. Their scientific equipment-called EASEP for "Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Payload"-includes a solar-powered seismometer to check on moonquakes and a mirror to bounce back an earth-based laser beam to measure the distance from home...