Word: mindedness
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His campaign on the skids, Teddy Kennedy announces he will go on hunger strike until Election Day. "That way, even if I lose I'll be in good shape," Kennedy, a reconciliation-minded Joan by his side, tells reporters.
How can you be mean to a guy like that, a guy who makes your grandmother smile? It's all a gimmick, of course, the absent-minded-professor-type-who's-messy-and-never-on-time thing. But there's nothing so bad about that. Just about everyone on television...
Nabokov's rankings are dogmatic but for the most part congenial. Yet, something seems wrong in his assessment of Dostoevsky: His tone is too violent, too bitter. The attack on Dostoevsky apparently became obsession for the writer. His criticism of Crime and Punishment as petty and simple-minded seems also...
My mother, a healthy-minded Quaker, grew increasingly devoted to profanity as she aged. By 80, she had developed a good rule: "It's all right to swear, but not at people." Thus "Damn!" is fine, but not "Damn you!"; so is "Hell!" but not "Go to Hell!" However...
Infantile pro wrestling confuses reality and perpetuates narrow-minded stereotypes, but time has not changed the emphasis of amateur wrestling.