Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...environment can make no significant changes in how human beings live unless it is linked with a change in the social, political and economic environments. The major portion of the architecture you show expresses the "needs, priorities, aspirations" of the corporation, the industrial megalith and a national state of mind that is more interested in the economics of production and performance than in the amelioration of the human condition...
Which Richard Nixon? Friends, enemies and those in between could not agree. They never could before. In a generally sympathetic biography nine years ago, Earl Mazo found in Nixon a "paradoxical combination of qualities that bring to mind Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Joe McCarthy." The intervening years have polished Nixon and made him well-to-do, but they have not simplified him. He can still sound like the high-minded statesman and act like the cunning politico. He can talk eloquently of ideals and yet seem always preoccupied with tactics. He can plink out Let Me Call...
...earlier, he had sent notes to a number of supporters, asking them to send suggestions to a post office box in New York, "anonymously, if you prefer." Whether he got any ideas from that source was not clear, but he did arrive in Miami with Agnew definitely on his mind...
...them, particularly when they involve corruption among the military or the subject of peace talks. Huong was upset when Peace Candidate Dzu was sentenced last month to five years at hard labor for advocating talks with the National Liberation Front. The Premier tried to change Thieu's mind, but he failed. Yet in less than three months in office, Huong has given the premiership-and with it, by extension, civilian government in South Viet Nam-an aura of respectability it had never attained under others. Huong's hope is that the aura will grow...
...equipped with walkie-talkies, to pinch the pinchers, whose sleights of hand may earn them up to six months in jail or $65 in fines. But there have been no arrests so far, and on several occasions the cops have been told bluntly by seemingly beleaguered beauties to mind their own business...