Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In his single-minded effort to get low-rent tenants out of his houses and high-rent tenants in, Rachman hired men to urinate in hallways, smash furniture, and once in Bayswater to remove the roof of a house and abandon the stubborn tenants to the mercy of wind and...
∙LEWISOHN STADIUM (June 25-Aug. 10) summer concerts, originally conceived as a form of recreation for World War I servicemen, quickly expanded to give all of New York's worn, huddled and hectic masses a tension-free oasis where they could drink in the cultural delight and pellucid...
In Britain the foolish display of the anti-Greek demonstrators left unpleasant echoes. Those behind the riots, wrote the Daily Mirror, "are not merely leading woolly-minded undergraduates in woolly-minded peace protests; they are providing a shield for mischievous Communist agitation." The paper noted that "Greece is about the...
Times of national crises in the past have often inspired outbursts of folk songs. Independence-minded folk singers of the 1730s wrote anti-British songs so "seditious" that Governor William Cosby of New York felt called upon to stage a public song burning. In the America that Walt Whitman heard...
The basis of religion, James argues in his commentary on religious seers, is the anguished cry of "Help! Help!" Not the "healthy-minded," but the "sick souls" of the world are the founders of religion; those who have a "pathological melancholy" and turn in their despair to a higher power...