Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis of the Mind. His failure to do so highlighted the greatest crisis of all-the crisis of the imagination. Civilizations do not fall primarily by a failure of force. They fall because of a failure of the mind and the instinct to survive. It was this failure that a Frenchwoman had in mind when she said to an American, in a sweltering Paris restaurant last week: "The fate of Western civilization is being settled now-this week. And there seems to be nobody, in your country or mine, or in any country, with enough imagination to save...
...Griffith: "I know, Commander, that you will forgive me for suggesting the other day at Southport that you should take the gold out of Fort Knox. It does not seem to have been a very popular speech in America." While the diners laughed, Bevin continued: "Well, I do not mind whether it is Lend-Lease or that [gold], but all I say is this, that you can't get settlement in the world unless you get these economic conditions right...
...defensively maternal note creeps into her voice. Says she: "He's a perfectly normal boy, very free with the others and full of fun. He has a natural manner, except when photographed. Then he wears his picture-taking look, a rather bored expression. . . . He has a good mind . . . direct and honest. It would be easy for him to say he understands when he doesn't and he will not do that...
...bolting your food: you miss the flavor and risk dyspepsia." The creative reader is not necessarily widely read: "The well-read man is often one who has accumulated knowledge at the expense of imagination." Real reading is a process of remembering. "Books rarely if ever put anything into the mind of the reader which is not already there. The primary effect of reading is awakening, not informing. . . Books startle the mind into closer and more vivid contact with its own culture, or send it adventuring into strange places. . . . Unless in some way or at some time words, sentences, or books...
...amount of education has entirely succeeded in doping the popular mind into complete uniformity, for however uniform the doped minds of the masses may appear to be, somewhere lurks the undefeated ... ego waiting a chance of 'breaking through' and asserting itself. Often the last kick of indomitable individuality is against the accepted meaning of words, it is none the less a kick even if it misses its mark, like the legendary old lady who had always been under the impression that Cherubim and Seraphim were 'man and wife like Sodom and Gomorrah...