Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rocking-Chair Candidate. McCarthy's supporters charged that the whole convention was being set up with Humphrey's needs in mind. But in reality it was Lyndon Johnson who was in control, and he did not seem overly interested in rigging the convention for his Vice President. Each of the 5,611 delegates and alternates received a free copy of To Heal and To Build, a collection of Johnson speeches. In an otherwise cogent keynote speech, Hawaii's Senator Daniel Inouye devoted paragraphs to the President's accomplishments. A Japanese-American who lost his right...
...most drama, events shape the character. In Hunger, nothing happens-and in that vacuum occurs the conflict between the writer's mind and the world's will. At first he is euphoric. But with steady rejection and growing poverty, he becomes like his pencil, inexorably worn away until only a stub remains. Though there is an abortive erotic interlude with a woman (Gunnel Lindblom), for the most part Oscarsson is left alone to disintegrate in the worn suit and the bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable...
...celebrity when most of his contemporaries had scarcely finished college. But he was also a frail and sickly young man, and he did have a presentiment that his life-span would be short. He labored desperately to get down on paper the stories and observations that pressed on his mind like ghosts demanding to be exorcised. "Here is a writer," said his great champion, William Dean Howells, in 1893, "who has sprung into life fully armed...
...years old. A middle-aged maitre d' guides each first-timer to a host after discreetly asking her preference. Regular customers streak straight to their favorites. Says one fortyish matron: "My husband leaves me alone with my two children at home for his golfing. I make my husband mind my children once in a while so that I can come here and dance with the boys." Adds another: "My husband? Why, I'm sure he's somewhere having his little fun with cabaret girls. I'm here to even the score with...
Dreamed up by L. Ron Hubbard, a onetime science-fiction writer, Scientology originally surfaced as "Dianetics," a pseudopsychological fad that flourished briefly in America in the early 1950s. Dianetics purported to be a quick way to mental health that could clear the mind of "engrams," the mental quirks that, Hubbard alleged, were the cause of all psychic problems...