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Sirs: In TIME, Feb. 25, I read Henry J. Weeks' letter, headed "Admires own Form." Later in a newspaper I read the following: 1st Flapper-I believe my vanity is getting the best of me. 2nd Flapper-Why? 1st Flapper-Because I'm always standing before a mirror. 2nd Flapper-That is not vanity, that's imagination. You might call this a coincident. A.M. OMDAHL...
...outside periodicals that students turn when inclined to while away time over a short story or a discussion of a cosmopolitan problem. On the other hand it is possible that a large student public could be brought to patronize a magazine which should undertake exclusively to mirror their own life and activities. College newspapers perform this function in an abbreviated form; it would be the task of the proposed college "lit" to select topics of controversial or novel interest and develop them in a literary manner. The difficulty of confining contributors entirely to college subjects would not be the least...
...unbaked clay which were discovered in the sand-buried city of Kara Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the Fogg Museum expedition of 1924 dug there and found, in addition to sculptures and fragments of unusual thirteenth-century frescos, a tenth-century bronze mirror. This is one of the very few Chinese mirrors taken from the earth by responsible persons, and is in exceptional condition...
...advantage. There are times when both the story and the actress wink and twitch like someone about to do something really funny, but the moment always slips away, the wit is not managed, and what is left remains small-town fooling. Best shot: Miss Moore practicing expressions before the mirror in a slot-machine...
...ordering reason; but it exposes the self to the self. In every psychosis one sees fragmentary versions of oneself dissected out by disease. This leads inevitably to self-revelation and progressive insights. Metaphorically speaking, such experiences expand consciousness. In James' language "I the Knower" looks into the psychic mirror and sees a larger "Me the Known...