Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laughter. He was reassuring. He hinted strongly that he could reach a peaceful settlement in his present negotiations with the radio networks. FM? Television? He was "keeping an open mind on those questions." He made it plain that James Caesar Petrillo had a heart which beat for the public. He and his musicians were perfectly willing to make records for home phonographs; they refused only because 20% of the product was used by radio stations and jukeboxes without payment of royalties to the musician or the union...
...possession and exercise of these virtues, and in the state of mind which they produce, we find the true liberalism. Neither a certain current set of beliefs, nor a wild-eyed seizure upon something just because it is new, nor the investigation which starts with formed opinion, praiseworthy though that opinion may be can be honestly liberal. There is as much danger today from those whom one authority calls "dogmatic modernists" as from the traditional rock-ribbed reactionary. For liberalism in an approach, an attitude of mind, a way of life which meets an issue fortified with knowledge and intelligence...
...learn getting 200 inches of copy downstairs to Art before one o'clock. As a useful byproduct you learn to turn night into day. In the daily working of the CRIMSON office comment books a man acquires the habit of candor, of free-swinging criticism, of speaking his mind: a good thing. Nowhere else in the college is the flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed; the rudeness of your peers does it, that and seeing your staff in print. A man learns to write, if not well, at any rate quickly and simply, and generally with the semblance...
...community services, I regret to record here my candid opinion that only on rare occasions does the CRIMSON fulfill the obligations which arise from its unique freedoms. Two or three instances from the past 15 years come immediately to mind, and will serve as good enough measuring stick. Certainly any list must be headed by Blair Clark's campaign to do away with tutoring schools in Harvard Square. We have had also the systematization of the "Confidential Guide to Courses" and the annual critique of fields of concentration; these are taken, still, with salt, but they do their job. From...
...like a drab, a very scullion. Vag cried "ah vengeance" once to shake his mind from his thoughts. What a painful process this conscience is. I'll have to stop thinking. When I've been away from awhile I'll mellow, perhaps I'll even forget, said...