Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter to McMahon, he had said that if the AEC had failed, then no single fact could be "more disturbing to the peace of mind of the people." But certain tests of AEC's efficiency could be applied, among them: "what is the state of our atomic weapons," how big is the stockpile, how much progress has been made in new weapon design? The record, he had written, "is a proud one." Now, on the witness stand, he invited the committee to ask some 30 prominent scientists and industrialists what they thought of AEC. The joint committee itself...
Easy Essays. Five years ago, Peter Maurin, who had stripped himself of everything else, lost the use of his mind, through arteriosclerosis of the brain. Virtually unable to think or talk, Maurin numbly lived out the end of his life at one of the communal farms he helped build near Newburgh, N.Y. But every issue of the Catholic Worker has carried at least one of the old "Easy Essays," and readers unaware of Maurin's illness have often written in to congratulate him on their timeliness. Wrote...
...Eyes & Mind. What did the subject think of all this? Said well-pleased Poet Eliot: "There is a good deal to be said for sticking to the same doctor . . . There is the same reason for sticking to the same painter-if he is a good painter; he knows the history of one's face as well as the expression assumed for the sitting-an expression which is sometimes a defensive or bogus one when exposed to the sustained scrutiny of an unfamiliar pair of eyes on the other side of the easel...
...subjects he assigned to his girl students for English composition, his comments on their papers. Other biographers have touched lightly on the tragedies in Emerson's family; Rusk tells in detail of his brother Bulkeley, who lived past middle age without developing mentally; of his brother Edward, whose mind gave way briefly at the moment of his greatest promise, and who was taken to the asylum by Emerson himself; of another brother, Charles, supposedly the most gifted of the family, who died on the eve of his marriage and at whose grave, according to one account, Emerson burst into...
...Criminal Mind. In Chula Vista, Calif., Mrs. Vincent Stewart told police that the six pairs of shoes stolen from her home were all returned the following day, newly shined...