Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark Clifford, who has a passion for orderliness and quiet, solved that problem. Too many differences of opinion made it difficult for the boss to make up his mind. He got Mr. Truman's ear. The President began referring Cabinet members to Clifford, and between Cabinet meetings Clifford screened out what he thought the President should not hear. Cabinet members were grateful for this avenue of escape from Steelman's "coordinating." Clifford also set himself up as a barrier between the President and the professional politicians. They were not pleased...
...interesting piece of fiction in the magazine. An introspective young man buys a live rabbit and gives it to his mistress, but the forgets that she has a large dog in the house. The relationship of the two animals symbolizes the doubt and fear in the man's mind, and the story becomes at times terrifying by placing brutality in the limited world of the animals...
Almost his only confidant was a boy named Harry de Forest Smith, whose mind was also stuffed with echoes of books. Robinson once said that Smith was one person to whom he could "take his soul." While Smith was away at school, in 1890, the two boys began a regular correspondence that lasted until 1900 and briefly flared again...
...American Presidents who took a public interest in poetry, became enthusiastic over Robinson's verse and found him a sinecure, which gave him both a living and free time. But the years of loneliness and doubt had left a scar on Robinson's mind: failure remained his basic theme. Readers of this book may realize some of the suffering, the agony and the terrible consumption of human resources that go to make a poet in America...
Black & White Confusion. Author Whyte considers the years between 1914 and 1944 another Thirty Years' War. "For thirty years the human mind has suffered confusion, myriads of lives have suffered premature disaster, and the necessities of war still dominate life and thought. Yet this half-century has not been a monotone of evil, but a black and white confusion, bewilderingly paradoxical until beneath its contrasts the underlying transformation is recognized. On the one hand there has been ... a tremendous sense of new opportunities of ... material security, of personal readjustment, of love relieved from fear - a sense of the possibility...