Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics feel that he is both immature and calculating-a man who has taken a stand on so many issues that he not only appears to be all things to all men but is confused in his own mind. (He began an article for PM last fall with the sentence: "Joseph V. Stalin has, I think, an open mind," now calls for outlawing the Communist Party in the U.S.) They feel that his habit of proposing a five-or ten-point panacea for every problem shows glibness and cockiness rather than sureness and knowledge. They point out that since...
...admirers say that he is a political prodigy who has grown up, a seasoned administrator (he was elected governor four years before Dewey), a pre-Pearl Harbor internationalist who has seen postwar Europe and Asia with his own eyes, a man unafraid to speak his mind. They feel that he is a natural leader who understands the problems and has drawn the support of labor, business, and agriculture; a proved vote-getter who was elected as a Republican three times in a state which Roosevelt carried four times; a man who stands the best chance of luring the independent vote...
...Communists held their last big rally before the ancient Church of Saint John Lateran. From a ten-ton truck decorated with cardboard doves of peace, Palmiro Togliatti spoke to 100,000 Romans. Said he: Alcide de Gasperi had called him a cloven-hoofed man, and he had a good mind to take off his shoe to show that this was a lie. "But it is better to put hobnails in the shoe and kick De Gasperi...
...when all the world knows what is at stake: "I want to raise this debate to the level commensurate with the gravity of the crisis we face." She does so bluntly: "The people of Berlin are unwilling to surrender to the S.E.D. and the Communist claim for power . . . Our mind and will are firmly set on the goal of Germany as a free and constitutional state . . . We know the seriousness of this hour." (The Russian officer has laid aside his nailfile, and listens intently.) With a bold kind of irrelevance that is a measure of her anxiety, Frau Leber...
Wedgwood was primarily a businessman with an inventor's mind; it was almost an accident that he also had an artist's eye. He never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate...