Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, celebrating what she chose to call her "70th rebirthday" in Los Angeles, reported joyfully that she was founding a Church of the Divine Dance. "People mustn't think this is a phony," said she. "I am an Episcopalian." This church, however, would be...
The harpsichord went out when the piano came in. Nobody at the time seemed very sorry: the piano was easier to play, its notes carried further, and it had greater range of tone. But the harpsichord has made a startling comeback-thanks largely to one woman. There has probably been...
"He will write books on the new idea of God to suit the way people live; induce faith in astrology so as to make not the will, but the stars, responsible for sins; he will explain guilt away psychologically as repressed sex, make men shrink in shame if their fellow...
3) Writers. "So pervasive has the new tradition of the closed mind become in journalism that there are many topics on which it is hard, today, to get even a reasonably fair-minded article. I should like, for instance, to know whether or not there is truth in the reports...
Promised Land. In Palestine the diggers were busy too, and some of the things they found were older than the Old Testament. When Joshua led his barbaric Bedouins out of the desert about 1400 B.C., he showed them a promised land almost as old as Egypt, and dotted with ancient...