Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemporary. Only too frequently knowledge of the contemporary is quite a bore, and it offers very limited perspective. I should like to take in hand one of those bitter critics of modern Academia. Maybe I could get him interested in Vulgar Latin and Old Irish. He might change his mind and that would do harm to the sale of his bitter books...
...most people today, the word brings to mind a fetchingly skimpy swimsuit. Few now recall that Bikini was the site of the world's fourth atom ic detonation and the cradle of the hydrogen bomb. It has been 22 years since the atoll's docile people were banished by the atom, and gentling nature and the passage of time have leached away Bikini's residual radiation. Lush vegetation once more covers the island. Through their long exile, most of it on inhospitable, isolated, mosquito-plagued Kili Island, the 300 or so Bikinians have huddled in a beachfront...
...very pleasant to live here in our beautiful world," she wrote to Poet John Greenleaf Whittier. "I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long." By the calendar, Helen Keller was nine when she corresponded with Whittier. By Helen's own insistent reckoning, she was not quite three. She considered that her real life, her "soul's birthday," as she put it, began when Anne Sullivan, who herself had been half-blind before surgery, penetrated Helen's limbo of blind, deaf...
Instead of being condemned to an imbecile's life in an asylum, Helen Keller learned to read and hear with her fingers, and by touching others' throats and lips, she was eventually able to verbalize the words she visualized in her mind. At eleven, she was raising money for the benefit of other blind children. She traveled. She wrote stories. She maintained an animated correspondence with writers and clerics; Mark Twain named Miss Keller and Napoleon "the two most interesting characters of the 19th century." At the turn of the 20th, Helen Keller went to college at Radcliffe...
...years that Fortas has been on the court, his incisive reasoning has propelled him past some of the more senior Justices to a position as one of the court's most brilliant and intriguing members. Last week the public at large got a clearer view of Fortas' mind at work as Signet Books published his 64-page pamphlet Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience, a compact discussion of the issues that have been raised by what he calls "the most profound and pervasive revolution ever achieved by substantially peaceful means...