Word: minded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Director Mitchell Wilder had put on his first "new accessions" show two years ago. "Some of the museums may have had the feeling that we wanted to exhibit their pictures and give them the haha. We had no such thought in mind and were very circumspect...
Glories of Night. The professor loves the night. "The human mind at such a moment may reflect," he says, "that all the glories of night are a consequence of a trifle of shadow that lies back of the earth, the sun banging through its great system, only here and there blocked by a tiny opaque ball that casts its tiny shadow. Because of that shadow-all the night music, the night poetry, the dark thoughts, the neon signs, the silent seductions, the bats, the thieveries, the large frights, the small frights, the mere worries, the walking of floors careful that...
...time, Dr. Ehrenwald reported last week in the quarterly American Journal of Psychotherapy, morning depression is just unpleasant. It can occur in people who are mentally and physically healthy. They are victims of "dissociated waking": i.e., they wake up by bits and pieces. Their bodies are awake, but their minds are still asleep. Or, he thinks, their consciences are awake and needling the rest of the still sleepy conscious mind to get up and go to work...
Free passage to the phantoms of the mind...
...Midget (1921) are model achievements in mixing realism with a profound sense of the strange. His best stories, especially Seaton's Aunt, have been compared with Henry James's classic Turn of the Screw for their shivery revelation of supernatural influences that might be merely states of mind...