Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became an attorney. Perhaps he thought the law would satisfy those obscurantist tendencies which later found their gratification in an extensive collection of the least-known 18th century American writings. Until the spring of his senior year. 1949, he was set to be a lawyer; then he changed his mind, turned down a place at the Law School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that greatest of Americanists and roistering misfit in this town of shut-ins goaded...
...prudent to name the many men he can parody. He knows all the drug-age neologisms and uses them with a purposeful heavyhandedness. A "mind blow" that comes off his tongue awkardly and belligerently, with quotation marks around it, reminds him that he is not, after all, native to the generation which minted the phrase. It also hints to his undergraduate audience, or the part of it which uses the words scarcely more gracefully than he, that neither are they. The play is brilliant, ceaseless, and for those too shy, too polite or too slow to answer back, intimidating. More...
...great systembuilders and the source of their thought, but for the vitality and diffusion of ideas themselves. His archives are the libraries of second-rate thinkers. For example, he ransacked the effects of the Puritan ministers and aldermen for evidence for his major work, Religion and the American Mind. The Idea has for Heimert a life of its own, conditioned by the physical furniture of reality but also conditioning it. He has little patience with historians who insist that "objective reality" exist, that it alone determines human action, and that if only we can count all railroad ties and piglets...
...Seriously, Jean, I just couldn't get you off my mind. I kept thinking about that afternoon last week, when we just walked around Cambridge, looking into store windows and fooling around in the Yard, and generally having a good time. That was fun, wasn't it?" (That, for the most part, was garbage; he had been dreaming all week about her body and how nice it would be to get into...
Even the name Dillard is enough to provoke a shift in the mind frame to "fiddle and banjo"--the guts of bluegrass. This and the acoustic guitar also make up the insides of Expedition. But the trimmings here, electric harpsichord, dobro, drums and harmonica, put the whole album in a different cast. Willie Dixon called the music of the Chicago Blues All-Stars "Modernated blues," and the term "modernated" fits this record well, It jumps from Lester Flatt's "Git It On, Brother" to the almost-rock of "Out On The Side," maintaining a uniformity of tone which reflects...