Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, fingers snapping, eyes flashing behind her glasses, Chippie shouted through the applause: "What you wanna hear now?" From the bar at the rear a man's deep voice rose clearly above the noise: "Just sing, Chippie, just sing." So Chippie just sang: Steady Roll, Trouble in Mind, Baby Won't You Please Come Home...
Reading "has the virtue of being one of the few entirely disinterested occupations ... being a method of further implementing the art of living by enriching the mind, sharpening the wits, and refining the senses. The end of reading is not more books but more life...
Heaven & Boiled Fish. Lewis sees no good reason to accept the modern dictum that "scientific" explanations are more authoritative than theological ones: "The old atomic theory is in physics what Pantheism is in religion-the normal, instinctive guess of the human mind, not utterly wrong, but needing correction. Christian theology, and quantum physics, are both, by comparison with the first guess, hard, complex, dry and repellent. The first shock of the object's real nature, breaking in on our spontaneous dreams of what that object ought to be, always has these characteristics. You must not expect Shrödinger...
What makes an editorial job on the weekly so desperate, said Maloney, is "the glum fact of the New Yorker's perfection; because perfection, in the mind of Harold Ross, is not a goal or an ideal, but something that belongs to him, like his watch or his hat." In 22 years, this has enormously complicated the once casual synthesis of the magazine: "Ross is no longer content with a profile; he requests also a family history, bank reference, social security number, urinalysis, catalogue of household possessions, names of all living relatives, business connections, political affiliations, as well...
...character employed by Communists to represent Capital. ... It tells the American public that everyone who manages our railroads (and, by association of ideas, all owners of capital) is cruel, lazy and indecent ... pariahs feeding off the poor laboring man. Such a concept, as it gains ground in the mass mind, allows for no exceptions. Ironically enough, it finally comes to the point where even Mr. Young, who is a prominent capitalist, becomes associated in the public mind with the rapacious figure he created...