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...according to Feiffer, are not people he has really seen, but rather stereotypes "filtered through our general mass culture." "In order to point out the things you want to point out," he explained, you have to take an image and "distort it slightly" by running it through "a cockeyed mirror...
Black Eye. Newspaper columnists and indignant M.P.s bent angrily over the fallen idol. Hissed the London Daily Mirror's "Cassandra": "While he was a-mewing and a-puling in his cot, at least 2,000,000 young men of about the same age as he is now [19] went to war against Germany and Italy. Almost every man jack of them felt they would never make a soldier because 'they weren't cut out for it.' " But Dene was cut out of it entirely; after two months of psychiatric and other treatment, he got a medical...
...judicial murder of Socrates was a mirror of the city-states' violent dealings with each other. Finally, the Hellenes united against the Persians, and even this alliance (the Confederacy of Delos, founded in 478 B.C.) was characteristically betrayed when the Athenians rifled the common treasury. This act offers Historian Toynbee an interesting and ironic sidelight. The Athenians used the funds to stave off mass unemployment by building public works. Thus the monuments that crown the Acropolis testifying to the glory that was Greece are actually the result of a kind of grandiose PWA project subsidized with stolen funds...
Beginning in February, Daily Mirror Columnist Richard Crossman, a Labor M.P., urged Prime Minister Macmillan to step into the Western vacuum of leadership. Said Grossman: "Poor Mr. Eisenhower is far too old and ailing even to try negotiations with the Kremlin." Asked the Sunday Express: "Will Ike now turn to Macmillan?" Answer: yes. Reason: "Too long has Ike let himself be known as a leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative...
Sneered the Daily Mirror's Columnist Cassandra: "Of all the wibbly-wobblers at the White House, President Eisenhower is doing his best to break the records for indecision . . . General Eisenhower just doesn't know his own mind-which maybe is just as well...