Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confucius emphasized family obligations, evident still in Viet Nam's ancestor worship and cult of the dead. The 15th day of the seventh month is set aside annually for the departed; the shades swoop down upon the living, who do their best to placate them with a sumptuous feast...
Bishops & Butterflies. Along with Commonwealth and Crown, the Church of England thus seems to have become a relic of history, unsure of itself and its future. Says Yorkshire Novelist John (Room at the Top) Braine: "The church needs to make up its mind. Its trouble stems from the fact that...
Some dyspeptic Iroquois brave named it "Se-rach-to-que," which has been translated as "Floating Scum upon the Water." Among dip-minded suburban housewives it enjoys minor fame as the birthplace of the potato chip. James Gordon Bennett was moved to entitle it "the seraglio of the prurient aristocracy...
A Light Hand. Like many a success ful publisher, gangling, Dakota-born Phil Graham never covered a news sto ry. A lawyer by training and a wheeler-dealer by instinct, he started at the top of his adopted profession. In 1940 he married Katharine Meyer, 22, news-minded daughter of...
Losing "Third Markets." Partly be cause the U.S. has not been very export-minded until lately, few U.S. companies had even complained to Washington about the differentials. But the Congressional Joint Economic Committee got wind of the matter in May and tipped off Kennedy. The Congressmen -notably the committee'...