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...comparison haunts me I can't help feeling that we've let the human race down a little, and yet, what could we have done? The tragedy and anguish of th Hungarian voices on the radio was unforgettable; t he text should be hung on ever American mirror, so we could read...
...Britain's Sunday Pictorial burst out with a Page One headline: FOR PETE'S SAKE, PUT HIM OUT OF HIS MISERY. Last week the British Press Council roundly deplored such instances of "coarse impertinence." It cited as another example of "bad taste and worse manners" the Daily Mirror's headline on the same romance...
...newspapers, took both sides to task for this state of affairs. It suggested "an improvement in the quality and the supply of news" from the palace, urged newspapers not only to handle news of the crown "with discretion," but to stop paying palace servants for "offensive trivia." The Mirror, world's biggest daily (circ. 4,649,696) promptly snapped back at the "pompous" council for talking "nonsense...
...revolutionary, to be found in the U.S. today?'' asked American Trucking Associations President Neil J. Curry last week. His answer: "Behind the desk of any business establishment." Twenty-five years ago the claim would have sounded absurd. It still seems so to many businessmen. In his own mirror, the average U.S. businessman sees an unyielding and uncompromising conservative face; yet he has been largely responsible for the dynamic forward drive of the U.S. economy that has had a revolutionary effect on American life. As the businessman has helped to sustain economic stability and translate it into human progress...
Another touchstone is the mirror, developed by Venetian craftsmen. Observes Mary McCarthy: "The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real." In its decay, Venice is frozen in a kind of narcissistic trance with each Venetian "a connoisseur of Venice," and somehow slightly saddening in his obsessive concern with sacred artistic relics...