Word: mindedness
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Jewish Introductions was founded three years ago to aid academically minded Jews who don't have time to socialize, said Sally W. Bock, director of the organization. "Most of a [Jewish] student's time is spent in a science lab," she explained.
I hope Hart and Torricelli's efforts won't be watered down into a wimpy voluntary national service along the lines of the Peace Corps. That would defeat the purpose of a national service in the first place. Like the Peace Corps, a voluntary service would be very popular in...
Cesare Lombroso, a high-minded 19th century Italian physician, is remembered for his series of skull measurements purporting to show that criminals have smaller brains than law-abiding citizens. Few criminology textbooks go to print without elaborate coverage of Lombroso's folly, a reminder to students that nurture, not nature...
Though fair-minded and often generous to its intellectual opponents, the book is obviously an effort to discredit the reigning view that crime is largely, or entirely, the by-product of poverty, racism, broken families and other social disturbances. By focusing narrowly on environmental conditions that help breed crime, the...
For a single-minded writer, Strindberg's interests were strangely diverse. In addition to being the most prolific of authors--throwing his pages to the floor as fast as they flowed from his pen--he was a painter of considerable skill. Before he came to the theater, by way of...