Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement declaring its utter confidence in its man, revealing that it had sent a representative to Mexico not long ago to check on his authenticity. Kluckhohn was assigned to cover Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. Other sectors of the U. S. press were less temperate. The Hearstian New York Mirror shrilled: "Presidents Roosevelt and Cárdenas ought to realize that a lot of Americans are saying: 'Why not just go down there and take over Mexico? . . . The Mexicans themselves would be better off.' " In Mexico City the conservative Ultimas Noticias declaimed: "Kluckhohn sees everything the color of earthquakes...
...Storm Jameson is a lively terrier. She pounces on an idea, gets a firm grip on it, shakes, worries, chews it to bits. Sometimes she gets her teeth into a marrowy morsel, sometimes merely chews an old hat. For several years she has been chewing a huge bone-The Mirror in Darkness, a pageant of post-War England, three volumes so far, three more to come. Every once in a while she buries the bone (but not her bitterness-the War killed her brother, most of her men friends) and writes about Yorkshire moors or shipbuilding or the avocations...
Most businessmen are known by the company that keeps them. Not so, burly old Amadeo Peter Giannini, the J. P. Morgan of the West Coast. The 495 branches of his Bank of America mirror "old A. P.'s" domineering personality as sharply as the name of his huge bank holding company, Transamerica Corp., mirrors his ambition...
...brightly colored playroom that is not as innocent as it looks, the youngsters are exposed to temptation, have their curiosity aroused and are purposely frustrated while an observer watches them through a one-way screen; even moving pictures can be taken of the unsuspecting youngsters through a mirror that is really a window...
...which cost him preferment. But his "Drapier's Letters" made him beloved of the Irish, which was ample compensation. His "Voyage to Lilliput" laid bare society in all its smallness and pettiness; his "Voyage to Brobdingnag" magnified its faults to gigantic, revealing, revolting stature. He held up an exaggerating mirror to the English public's face and showed them a visage as distorted as a Coney Island reflection. His pen was undoubtedly the most feared of his era, and he wrote publicly and anonymously, over-seriously and over-humorously, at length and in brief, even in baby talk--whichever best...