Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrugged. "Keep in mind where we'll be when we hit Customs," I said. "San Antonio, Texas. Are you ready to get busted in Texas?" He stared down at his fingernails...
Those who do not look kindly on Thompson's scream-of-consciousness writing style consider his stuff to be no more than "pseudo-literary exhibitionism," the product of a burned-out mind and of little significance to anyone but academics doing studies on the evil effects of narcotics. William F. Buckley Jr., writing in this week's New York Times Book Review, predictably attributes Thompson's work to "a very nearly unrelieved distemper," and comments that he "elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral...
...Carter seldom wavered from Jordan's plans. Ever since, Jordan has been the President's top political strategist, and this month was officially named White House Chief of Staff?even though critics claim Jordan embodied some of the Administration's most serious managerial flaws. Jordan has a swift, conceptual mind, reads political moods and trends skillfully, and although he is personally disorganized is highly imaginative. Jordan looks and sometimes acts like a fraternity boy?though he has lately switched from khakis and boots to pinstripe suits?...
...curious attempt to impose aural purity on his people, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini earlier in the week had proposed that music be banned from national broadcasting. "Worse than opium," he said, "music is among the elements that stultify the mind of our youth." Television and radio officials said they would go along with the ban for the holy month but would decide later whether or not to resume normal musical programs...
...Maniototo is not necessarily plain in New Zealand's centeral Otago; the region may exist only in the wonderfully deranged mind of novel's narrator, herself a chimera of identities. She is, at various stages, Violet Pansy Proudlock, a ventriloquist: Mavis Barwell, widow of a French teacher turned debt collector; and Alice Thumb, a novelist...