Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a polite convention that everyone thinks, but the System is wise enough to make provisions for the failure of thought. In fact, the System positively thwarts thought. As long as everyone complies to a minimal degree, everything works fine. But it's dangerous to surrender your entire mind to the System. If we had, we might have had to go to Hollywood, or transfer to Yale...
...bureaucratic mind strained, digging, not for an answer, but for the phrase from the statutes learned by rote for situations like this. "Well, if you wanted an abatement, you had to come in before June...
...walked back up Mass Ave his mind played with the delightful image of City Hall exploding, belching yellow-orange-black flame-smoke from its windows, bloating at its middle, and then crumbling to the ground...
...other words, the way to approach this game is with the same scenario in mind that you thought there would be at the beginning of the season. Harvard goes into the Stadium as the underdog spoiler. Let me tell you all the great things that Harvard can spoil...
...Yale Ivy League championship. It would be the second in a row, don't forget, and that is something. Try to keep out of your mind the fact that Harvard is on the brink of winning its first outright Ivy title. That causes all sorts of anxiety...