Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That shrewd and accurate observation became known as Parkinson's Law, after its founder, C. Northcote Parkinson, 59. Now comes "Mrs. Parkinson's Law," aimed at the harried housewife who hopes to keep both her sanity and her spouse: "Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind," goes the latest Parkinson principle. What all that bafflegab means, says Parkinson, is that when the lady of the house feels like blowing her stack, she ought to hie herself next door for a chat...
...beards. Even so, they are easy to spot: they tend to have paunches and wear white socks and the black shoes that are part of the regulation police uniform. But since the Hippie Squad is part of Fink's protection program, the kids don't seem to mind having the fuzz around, except when they bust a pot or acid party...
...cofounder of TIME, probably had less personal publicity than any other American of comparable influence; he was widely unknown, and what was known about him was often wrong. Luce was particularly nettled by Wolcott Gibbs' brilliant parody profile in The New Yorker ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind"). Once, after Luce had visited a college class in contemporary biography, he exploded: "And who do you suppose the class was discussing? Me! And what do you suppose they were using as their text? That goddam article in The New Yorker! Is this thing going to be engraved...
...attempt to revive interest in the club, Katz said he is leading a movement to change the constitution and break with the national organization. Such a break would give the club much greater freedom in deciding policies, Katz said. "We could then make up our mind, and if the national organization doesn't like it, then that will be just tough for them...
...course every time the narrator tells how hard it was for Humphrey to get his message across during those early months we're given the message--the old Humphrey record--once again. There's some idle chatter about the year 2000 so we won't mind looking back so often, and all the self-deprecation helps build the ethos of an underdog, gaining momentum all the time, winning this damn election against the longest of odds...