Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take part in research, enough biology to do unaided research, and I had a fair knowledge of history and contemporary politics." Thus equipped, he went to New College, Oxford, started in mathematics, switched to "Greats" (classics and philosophy), and broke an oar in the college crew. Strong in mind and body, he entered the military in 1914, eventually to be praised by Marshal Haig as "the bravest and dirtiest officer in my army...
Edward Stewart's characters are so folded, spindled and mutilated that the mind's computer tends to reject them as not altogether human. Yet they have a way of engaging the reader with their perverse antics and comic, but horrific, deeds. Stewart's first novel, Orpheus on Top, marked him as a humorist of darkest hue. In this, his second, he has created an "entertainment" worthy of France's Grand Guignol theater...
...detachment. It sustains a tension between involvement and detachment which is very much like the normal tension of our lives. In life there are events and detached observations, actors and analyzers. The difference between talking and acting is more subtle than it seems. Comment, the willed use of the mind, demands distance--the commentator toys with his own responses and tries to isolate consciousness from living. This hurts very often because it is unnatural; you have to learn how to do it. And, by definition, it is alienating...
...Nayar wins this tournament, he will be the second person ever to capture three titles in a row. The first to do it was Steve Vehslage of Princeton eight years ago. "I think Anil's chances are excellent," said coach Jack Barnaby. "There's no doubt in my mind that he is one of the half-dozen best collegiate players of all time," he added...
Fortunately for my state of mind, the two plays failed to live down to my expectations. While The Last War's End proved only to be slightly diverting, The Turncoats actually managed to be entertaining. Written by Paul Hunter, a free lance writer in Los Angeles, The Turncoats is a largely factual study of a handful of GI prisoners-of-war, who refused repatriation to the United States at the end of the Korean War, choosing instead to remain with the Chinese. The hour-long play focuses of Pfc. Duane Barnholt, played competently by Douglas Stevens, as he tries...