Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the myth, the white man can't understand the Negro, but the Negro, through long observation, knows every wrinkle of the white man's mind...
...Borges, the universe is, as he said at a reading of his poetry in December, "an unstable world of the mind, an indefatigable labyrinth, a chaos, a dream." Borges sees himself, the artist, not as a searcher for the exit to the labyrinth but as a man lost along with everyone else, who can perceive and can convey to his fellows flashes of clarity within the windings of the maze. The flashes of clarity within the windings of the maze. The essence of the lectures--especially the two most recent--is the expansion of such insights...
This disappointing performance of Martin Peretz, Instructor in Social Studies, shows how this state of mind exists even among the more radical Faculty members. Peretz originally proposed the ban on military recruiting at the January 16 meeting, but later withdrew his support from the proposal. As chairman of the last meeting, he was reluctant to use the pressure of his position to bring the television motion to a vote. As a result, it was tabled...
...Shaw students didn't say much, but they watched us closely. According to the myth, the white man can't understand the Negro, but the Negro, through long observation, knows every wrinkle of the white man's mind. No one at Shaw last summer--students or tutors--completely understood the tensions that were building, but it was the Shaw students who first gave them expression...
...mind went back to a class in semantic analysis earlier that week. "How is an event more complex than a structure?" "An event is more complex than a structure because an event is composed of a structure changing in time. Structures are static and three-dimensional, whereas events are dynamic and four dimensional...