Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entry resident voiced an unusual inconvenience yesterday. "I don't mind the drilling and sawing in the early morning. I don't mind the hammering. The trouble is that the workmen tell all their jokes in Italian, and I don't understand Italian...
...outstanding poets (14th-19th Centuries), only two were "demonstrably" insane. The two: Cowper, who most of his life was subject to fits of melancholia and suicidal mania; and Swift, whose mind gave way in the last three years of his life...
...make money on cattle, Bob Kleberg runs his feudal domain with the hard fist of a feudal lord. But he has hundreds of miles of fence to mend and mind-and everything within those fences. To outsiders, the feudal fist sometimes seems too hard. There were unpleasant rumbles against the ranch in 1936 when two poachers supposedly disappeared within it. (The Klebergs think that if they really did disappear on their ranch, they might well have got lost and starved to death.) Now, as a good-will gesture, 40 hunters a week are permitted on the ranch during hunting seasons...
...problems of 1947, of the soul as well as of the mind, were bigger than the abilities of the writers who grappled with them. It was fashionable to indict writers for this condition, but how just was the indictment...
...year in which the flight into the past was accelerated in fiction and nonfiction. But current anxieties broke through. A book called Peace of Mind was the biggest non-fiction seller of the year, a reflection not so much of its own merit as of the numbers of Americans seeking the assurances and affirmations of religion...