Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIS volume should attract attention if only for the reason that it contains the largest number of sonnets ever published under one cover. Records and superlatives of quantity could be applied to at endless length by anyone with a statistical turn of mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...
When Lincoln Steffens plucked him out of Harvard in the '10's, Walter Lippmann was a progressive, so much so that his first book, "A Preface to Politics," identified him with Steffens himself. Since the War, it would seem, from the convolutions of Mr. Lippmann's mind, that he has been attacked by that disease so common among political commentators and critics of the American scene, the disease of terminology. His eyes, searching for a quiet and secure resting place, have seized upon communism, pacifism, fascism and turned them into the little pink elephants which many of his indulgent readers...
...dual control system, the brain and the pituitary. That they are closely associated is shown by the ability of prolactin to produce a psychological phenomenon, maternal behavior. How hormones work on the brain and nervous system remains a stubborn mystery. The fact of their association, however, shows that mind and body are not separate, that a living organism is one "body-mind." Says he: "The mind has been firmly placed in an evolutionary frame. . . . The consciousness of dog and man has evolved . . . in the same unbroken way that the function of the digestive or glandular system has evolved...
...seek unity for the labor movement-a progressive unity that looks to the future instead of the past. ... I am sure that by living cautiously I can live another quarter century. I have no doubts about my ability to withstand the mental strain of release. My heart and mind have never been confined to prison walls...
...Martinis at these affairs. The Fellows have come to refer to her affectionately as "Aunt Agnes," and Aunt Agnes' Fellows have acquired a free-swinging conversational style under brilliant Archie MacLeish. After one long-winded speech from a guest economist, Fellow Ed Lahey rose and inquired: "Would you mind summarizing the point in ten thousand words...