Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arjuna asked: 'My Lord, how can we recognize the saint who has attained pure intellect, who has reached this state of bliss, and whose mind is steady? How does he talk, how does he live, and how does he act?' ". . . The sage whose mind is unruffled in suffering, whose desire is not to rouse by enjoyment, who is without attachment to anger or fear-take him to be one who stands at that lofty level. "He, who wherever he goes, is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil...
...shrewd lawyer tricks and diplomatic maneuvering. Charles Francis Adams, great with a sense of historic mission, called on Lincoln before departing for the London legation. Lincoln had little to say of high politics. Adams, being an Adams, never got over the fact that what Lincoln really had on his mind that fateful day was the patronage struggle for the Chicago postmastership. *Gandhi, like Lincoln, had his family sorrows. His first son Hiralal, who drinks, was estranged from Gandhi, was once a convert to Islam. Last week second son Manilal was in Durban, South Africa...
...among the pink lights and mirrors. His salary is the union wage -$87.50 a week; but sometimes customers send up a free drink to him, and he thanks them kindly for it. Jimmy hopes to keep right on playing "as long as they want me." He doesn't mind what he has missed. "I'm doin' fine," says he in his slow, lazy way. "At the old bear trap they used to give me fifty a week for playin'. In 30 years I come ahead 37 bucks...
...most of them were sure of one thing: in the small field of women concert pianists, she was the brightest newcomer of the year. "Here," wrote the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, "is an artist one can enjoy with all the faculties-with the sentiments, with the mind, and with the musical...
...their best argument was two Government-owned distilleries at Omaha, Neb. and Muscatine, Iowa. In December, Secretary Anderson had promised distillers to shut off grain from the Government plants, leased to private operators. But Anderson later changed his mind, gave the Omaha still 60,000 bushels a month, gave Muscatine...