Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...document in the annals of U.N. was submitted to the Assembly last week. It was part of a report by the U.N. Headquarters Commission on a permanent U.N. site, and was written by the French commission member, one of the world's most-touted architects, Le Corbusier.*The mind which produced the dictum-"An artist who paints a dog to look like a dog is himself a dog of the lowest kind"-came to several revolutionary conclusions about U.N.'s permanent home. Samples...
...word 'World Capital' is nothing but ambiguity . . . bloated with false deductions. . . . Confronting such a menace, the inhabitants of Connecticut, terror-stricken, took the bit between their teeth and flatly voted against the invasion of their domain. ... If the word 'Headquarters' brings to mind 'LIFE,' 'World Capital' brings to mind 'ACADEMISM.' And here we come to ... the very basis of the debate: ACADEMISM OR LIFE...
...body of their stories, the papers reported Professor Alexandrov's remarks more or less accurately, but in their headlines and leads they gave the impression that he was talking about international "control" and "supervision." Since the Russian had no such things in mind, he denounced the stories as "sensation" reporting. Delegate Andrei Gromyko further squelched the matter by claiming that Alexandrov had merely drawn attention to the lack of information on raw materials -that and nothing more. As for controls, Gromyko added, "the Soviet delegation considers the national control to be sufficient...
...just a house guest who "stayed on & on." Not so, said Miss Andrews; she had been hired to protect beautiful Mickey during her million-dollar fight-hired to protect her from violence, frame-ups, and from her own strong bias towards the opposite sex. Among Miss Andrews' body-minding duties: to "get her interested in something . . . war work ... or ... some kind of religious activity ... so that her mind won't be on one subject." The jury awarded Miss Andrews...
...spring of 1917, when most of the U.S. had its mind on war, a Manhattan college professor named Stephen Duggan had his mind on the peace that would come after. His theory: one big trouble between nations was misunderstanding of each other's ways. Many a well-heeled U.S. youth had studied painting in Paris, or philosophy mit beer at Heidelberg; but practically no foreign students had seen and sampled U.S. ideas and attitudes. His proposal: two-way scholarships between U.S. and foreign universities...