Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The idea of a living memorial opens unlimited vistas to monument-minded Americans. What about installing a young novelist in William Faulkner's house in Oxford, Miss.? A young architect in Frank Lloyd Wright's house in Oak Park, Ill.? A young physicist in Albert Einstein's...
Fireworks blossomed and flags rippled in Ottawa last week, as 23 million Canadians-or most of them, anyway -cheered the 110th anniversary of their national confederation. The $3.5 million birthday bash was a big change from last year, when merrymaking funds were slashed abruptly by an austerity-minded government. This...
"Government" may be too kind a description for the Shah's regime. The present Shah is the son of an upstart colonel, who founded the present dynasty in the first decades of this century and who abdicated in 1941 because he was found to have collaborated with the Nazis. Following...
Santiago Carrillo is probably Western Europe's most independent-minded Communist. He has, for example, openly condemned the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Hence Moscow's attack on him did not come as a great surprise, although the force of it was. The target of the New Times...
Von Braun's readiness to work for a new master and single-minded dedication to rocketry won him some critics. Satirist Tom Lehrer skewered Von Braun in a mocking song (Sample verse: "Once the rockets are up/ Who cares where they come down/ That's not my department...