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Tale for the Mirror, by Hortense Cal-isher. Masterful anecdotes of human hope, and foibles for our time, set in exurbia-on-Hudson, written by a subtle and stylish mistress of the short story...
...Chicago, Charlene Scanland was primping in front of the bathroom mirror one morning when a hoarse voice came out of the medicine cabinet saying: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?" Replied Charlene, without pausing to analyze the situation: "You are." Later, the owner of the mystery voice came around to find out who had answered the query so sweetly. He was a handsome bachelor who lived in the next apartment, but the story had no romantic ending for Charlene: he married her roommate instead...
TALE FOR THE MIRROR (307 pp.)-Hortense Calisher-Little, Brown...
Once black, he becomes frightened by what he had done. He is appalled by the unfamiliar reflection he finds in a mirror, frightened to be in a world so utterly cut off from his wife and children. He realizes that his appearance would terrify his family. "My inclination was to fight against it. I knew now that there is no such thing as a disguised white man.... The black man is wholly a Negro, regardless of what he might once have been. I was a newly created Negro who must go out that door and live in a world wholly...
USNSA's major function is neither to mirror student opinion nor to lobby for student interests. Its chief business is political education, and the Association generally goes about it unencumbered by the exigencies of pressure politics...