Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comrade Lombardo," yelled another delegate, "figures have killed your common sense. . . . Open your mind to the vivifying breath from the proletariat...
Lana Turner, who was suspended last fortnight by M-G-M for refusing 'to play the freewheeling Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers, changed her blonde mind and was gratefully welcomed back...
...Thomas Beecham, white-bearded British conductor who likes to distribute pieces of his mind, arrived in Manhattan with Lady Beecham. He was as generous as ever. Sir Thomas, 68, on Italy's eight-year-old Conductor Ferruccio Burco, who had arrived for a U.S. tour a few days before: "Who is responsible for this outrage? . . . Where are your police? The boy should be in kindergarten sucking a lollipop."* On musicians generally: "Musicians have no reason to be stuffy. I've seen an orangutan play the flute." On the state of things: "The world is drifting into barbarism...
...their lessons through "hypnopaedia" (sleep-teaching), a less talented novelist wrote a book with a similar idea. It never broke into print: New York publishers thought it too badly written and too fantastic. In the novel, an ambitious man made himself ruler of the world by inventing a "cerebrograph" (mind-writer), which taught people while they slept. Author Max Sherover abandoned the novel, but not the idea...
...book read, and record their impressions throughout (from "superior" to "bad") on an electronic gadget called Teldox. When it's all over, a composite graph indicates the weak spots in the story and the author is called in to make repairs. Whatever survives these sievings through the mass mind, Sindlinger says, is a story that's sure to sell...