Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip's end there was no doubt in the President's mind that he had done himself some good. Most of the people who heard him liked his fight and his folksiness. But his restored confidence did not lift the deep gloom overhanging most of the country's Democrats. Said a California Democrat: "He's a good egg. He'll be the most popular ex-President we've ever had. But you just can't put him back there and let him yack-yack with Congress for another four years...
...author does not accept this activity as patriotism in time of war, nor does he accept the scientists' broader claim that they are not responsible for the way the world utilizes their discoveries. "I would say," writes he, "that this is the No. 1 fallacy of the scientific mind . . . Certainly they are responsible . . . Certainly they can control how their new scientific principles are utilized; certainly they have to consider the implications of their research, and not merely strive blindly for facts, facts, facts...
Died. Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman, 41, stocky author of the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller, Peace of Mind (702,000 copies sold to date), of a heart ailment; in Boston. Last of a long line of rabbis, Liebman was a lecturer on Greek philosophy at 19, became rabbi of Boston's Temple Israel in 1939, the same year went on the air to become one of radio's top religious broadcasters. In Peace of Mind-a "selfhelp" book-he tried to make religion's peace with psychoanalysis, argued their compatibility, urged his readers toward a "shockproof balance . . . inside...
...seeing the gardener use it on her mother's rose-beds, and a new alarm-clock, because it was so nice and bright. She had thus many small sources of pleasure, inoperative perhaps on deeper intellects, which, added together, made a sort of comfortable wooly garment for her mind...
...look back to 1912 as the highest point of civilization, from which we have been steadily retrogressing ever since." Together with some mildly romantic young folk, Mrs. Brocken and her brother-in-law manage to live in pleasant decorum, with each member of the household sensible enough to mind his own business and respect the others' peculiarities...