Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Adams was upset by the answer to his question, and there is good reason for educational philosophers to be disturbed by the replies of today. People prate of colleges providing young men with "practical experience" or "social stability" or "the free mind," but no formal educational process can call itself a success unless it gives to its recipients, along with facts and experience, the desire and ability to learn...
...humping together over the hurdles with the professor chasing them with a set of 'tests' and 'recitations,' 'marks' and 'attendance,' the whole apparatus obviously copied from the time-clock of the businessman's factory. This process is what is called 'showing results' ...It circumscribes the latitude of mind which is the real spirit of learning...
...Double Life. Ronald Colman has a field day as an actor who loses himself-and his mind-in his part (TIME...
Joan isn't much good at keeping her mind on her business; whenever a man stands upwind from her, she tends to go buttery-eyed (a trick for which Miss Caulfield has a pretty talent). Veronica has to be coldhearted enough for both of them; but as it turns out, she is vulnerable, too. Both fall for an earnest, shabby oaf (well played by George Reeves) who dreams of modernizing his community with a power plant. Both help raise the money which will make his dream come true. And both plan to make off with it, love...
Hyacinth, who has secretly sworn to carry out the assassination of the duke, begins to have his doubts about the wisdom of destroying the social order. It is this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...