Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article about the retirement of the George School's able principal [TIME, Feb. 23] brings to mind an incident that illustrates 'the Pope's" [George A. Walton] Friendly understanding and treatment of his students. Returning from Quaker Meeting in nearby Newtown one Sunday morning, my roommate and I could not resist the temptation to throw stones through the windows of a coal shed. . . . The irate owner pursued us up the racks but, being in training for soccer at the ime, we soon outdistanced...
...human mind, even the Communist mind, turns toward order. In a land where brother cannot trust brother, fear of the policeman must serve instead. The policeman has to be everywhere, because there is no other cement in the society. The spy, the informer and the censor are the aristocrats of the Communist world. The cop at the keyhole is king...
Perched on the edge of his chair, the man at the piano glanced nervously about the orchestra, as if sure that something was about to go wrong. Robert Casadesus has played 100 times in Manhattan. But last week he had a special worry on his mind. This was the first time the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra had ever played one of his own pieces. Only when white-maned Conductor Leopold Stokowski got the orchestra safely through the opening bars did Composer Casadesus turn back to the keyboard and seem to relax, as he gave Manhattan its first hearing...
...Double Life. Ronald Colman has a histrionic field day as an actor who loses himself-and his mind-in his part (TIME...
...read them, Brant had to brush up on his French, went so far as to ask former French Ambassador Bonnet to check a point for him in the French archives (Bonnet obliged). Brant's new researches haven't helped him to prove the "human qualities of mind and emotion" he claims for Madison, but they have made possible a solid job of history in an era once handsomely covered by Historian Henry Adams but neglected since...