Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself and a few around him: To stay out of a war on the mainland of Asia, as General Douglas Mac Arthur had told him to do in 1961, or to charge on in with the U.S. flag flying? He never had a chance to fully make up his mind about that...
Another of Carter's despairs right now is the hardened state of the Israeli mind. In his secret moments the President has examined and re-examined his own attitudes, and he believes fervently that his background and his heart-religiously, intellectually-would never allow him to turn away from Israel. What to do? Speak out in indignation against the intransigence of Menachem Begin? Or quietly go back to Camp David and talk and wait? Even while suffering dramatic domestic political losses, Carter comes down on the side of patience-the essence of courage for these hours...
...office, thus keeping one step ahead of his superiors. He would gleefully fill me in on his findings the moment I arrived, the first wave in a day-long deluge of chatter that made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That goddam Elizabeth," Barnet would rant, "she's in there with Cobourn [his own boss] every day, pushing her way into everything...
...works by Renè Magritte-paintings, drawings and miscellaneous objets surrealistes -which opened last month at the Pompidou Center in Paris has been jammed with visitors ever since. It deserves its popularity. Magritte's strange paintings are still the best way into the territory of the free mind that surrealism called its own and named le merveilleux...
...open window with an easel in front of it; the canvas on the easel bears a picture of the view through the window; and this picture exactly overlaps the view, so that the play between image and reality asserts that the real world is merely a construction of mind-be any more jarring if its locale were exotic? Of course not; such paradoxes depend on the context of real life...