Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beautiful," than anything else he had done. A careful workman, he first built in his London studio, like a movie set, the cottage interior he intended to use.'Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over her, kindly and calm...
...took me to concerts but I did not come back and cry for a violin, nor did I pick up a fiddle and play from memory every note I'd heard at the concert. The idea of a career for me was always in somebody else's mind...
Nobody paid much mind to Manager Billy Southworth when he sounded off about Spahn in Florida: "He'll win 20; he'll be one of the best." Every manager has a right to talk that way about a prospect in training and, besides, wasn't this guy a lefthander? By this week, Warren Spahn was making other National League managers sit up and take notes on him, and making Southworth look very right indeed...
...Century's editorial "we," consistent readers have come to recognize the Morrison touch: a subtle blend of scholarship, sweet reasonableness and hard-punching prose. But Dr. Morrison attributes the rise of the Century to no one man. Editorial conferences, he says, are always "a highly integrated collective mind" engaging in "an informal continuum of conversation...
...Editor Hutchinson, a Methodist with a D.D. from both DePauw and Garrett Biblical Institute, and a Century veteran for 23 years, has no intention of changing the weekly's vigorous liberalism, its anti-denominationalism, its habit of speaking its mind. His biggest policy change, he says, will be a greater attempt to appeal to the laity. About 25% of the Century's readers are laymen; Editor Hutchinson hopes to boost it to 50%. Says he: "I'd like to keep our theological editorials short and crisp. Now, Dr. Morrison's editorials on theology are certainly impressive...