Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obsessed by failure, Blakelock's mind began to crumble. He took to wearing multicolored sashes about his waist, tucking an antique dagger in his belt, bedecking himself with gaudy beads and trinkets. And while his growing family was forced to scrimp for food, he began to imagine himself a millionaire. Finally, in 1899, on the day that his ninth child was born, he was committed to an asylum. There, hopelessly insane, he spent most of the last 20 years of his life...
...crime itself; if it conforms closely to the psychotic pattern, the murderer is probably insane. If such tests became common, could a sane murderer pass himself off as a crazy man by deliberately mimicking the psychotic pattern? Not likely, think Cohen & Coffin: a murderer in his right mind has a certain hesitancy about carving up his female relatives in the town square at high noon...
...Cohen & Coffin, the psychotic generally stays close to home: his wife, mother, sister or in-laws are favorites. The murder is often premeditated (one psychotic prepared again & again to kill his girl, but could not bring himself to do it when she was in a happy frame of mind; finally one night, when she was sad, he got it over with). But the crime is seldom shrewdly planned; many psychotic murderers operate in broad daylight, in public places, using any weapon that happens to come to hand. Another characteristic clue left by the mad killer is unnecessary roughness (cutting...
...those books that has obviously taken a lifetime maturing in the writer's mind. It is a strong and savory tale of adventure with the first white hunters in the West. Honestly imagined and true to history, it is also a parable of the way the pioneers, as immoderate as children, took their measureless paradise and spoiled...
...narrative of the violent Kentuckian's search for his love has the poetic improbability of something that might actually have happened. He finds her and joins her tribe, the Piegans, in the mountain valley of the Teton River, "winding, busy but unhurried, with a mind and time to have a look at things as it went along." Living with the Indians suits Boone. "A man could sit and let time run on while he smoked or cut on a stick with nothing nagging him and the squaws going about their business and the young ones playing, making out that...