Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his measurements of skulls; with his statements that morons and imbeciles are on the increase among us, that man's meddling with nature has been detrimental to his own evolutionary status, there is no quarrel. But when he says: "the quality of any individual mind is probably inherent and immutable," that, "we must improve man before we can perfect his institutions and make him behave," that, "the human improvement required is primarily biological," he is talking nonsense. Or, rather, he is talking like that flower of our higher institutions of learning, a college professor...
...multiplied intelligence requires that stupidity -a stupidity which is an artificial product. It is not innate, it is not inevitable." Said famed Political Economist John Stuart Mill, "of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences...
...have been waiting a long time for a logical explanation of Surrealism's right to exist; not its existence, mind, but its right to exist. Any kid can sling a ripe tomato, three rotten eggs and a jackknife at a square of wallboard and get a bang-up Surrealistic effect. But is that...
...water felt deliciously soothing to his jangled nerves and tired head, as it cascaded in merry little rivulets off his tousled locks. Perhaps it wasn't such a bad life after all. Dreamily musing and mulling these ideas over in his mind, the Vag reached for a piece of soap, and then began to lather himself. Ah, but maybe he hadn't recovered from last night's revelry as much as he had thought! The soap refused to glide smoothly over his skin, and his epidermic sensory nerves did not react properly to the massaging motion of the palmolive cake...
...college students can call on him. That is courtesy and respect from police. All too often, when a student is stopped by a policeman, the constabulary takes a hostile attitude on the assumption that the college boy is a "kid who can afford to pay." Such a frame of mind can only lead to resentment from the student, who goes through with his brush with the law determined to "get away with it" next time, rather than cooperate for the benefit of the whole community. Students should be arrested for violations, just like anybody else, but the law's effort...