Word: mind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there was garrulous Ambassador Pat Hurley reporting to Washington:"The Communists are not in fact Communists; they are striving for democratic principles." (That was a judgment made in wartime. But Hurley soon changed his mind, fought hard and successfully against State Department officials who wanted to arm the Communist "agrarian democrats...
When little English Soprano Maggie Teyte first got the idea of doing a new version of Gounod's Faust, she had Hitler in mind: "I wanted to show how Hitler, too, was a Mephistopheles, pulling wires and moving people around just as such men have through history ... I thought the Faust story would be a powerful...
Pint-sized José Figueres once described himself as "a literary socialist farmer with a kind of Atlantic Monthly mind." Thrust into politics as President of Costa Rica's ruling junta, he has never been quite able to decide whether to chuck politics for the bookish quiet of his coffee finca (farm), or to stay on in San José to finish the uphill fight for his program of "neo-liberalism."* Last week Pepe Figueres made his choice...
When he became president in 1933, Chemist Conant thought that he would never teach a class again. The atom bomb changed his mind. As wartime head of the National Defense Research Committee, he was horrified at the scientific illiteracy around him. Some of his like-minded colleagues, like Chemist Harold Urey of the University of Chicago, decided to spread understanding by direct political lobbying. Conant felt that he should carry on his own crusade in the classroom...
Such negative virtues are not quite enough. Miss Foley's contributors are earnest and well-intentioned, but nothing emerges boldly or sharply from their work. Lacking individuality or even eccentricity, most of the stories settle in the reader's mind like a grey blur. Though young in years, the writers seem old and weary in spirit...