Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME's very succinct and clear abstract of my treatment of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) with 2½% ether [TIME, Nov. 17] has produced a panicky deluge of letters from diabetics. For the sake of my peace of mind and the self-assurance and relief of hundreds of diabetics, please note that...
What was Bob Taft up to, anyway? The week before, he had said he would probably vote for the full $597 million. Now he voted for a cut. To top things off, he changed his mind once more after the Senate's Thanksgiving Day recess. In a long and bitter speech, he again said he would approve the bill, even though it represented a "wrong and fallacious" approach to solving Europe's problems. The Truman administration, he said, was responsible for having allowed most of these problems to arise in the first place...
Modern man was challenged to choose between the traditions of a 2,000-year-old Christian civilization and the new totalitarian systems which, in the name of social progress, contended for the allegiance of man's secular mind. The promise of the new ideas was as old as that serpentine whisper heard in the dawn of the Creation: "You shall become as gods"-for the first traitor was the first...
...Circle No. 4 is the pit. Here, in that ambiguous clarity which Milton called "no light but rather darkness visible," are two architects of betrayal. These men committed not the treason of the unlighted mind, like Kenneth Edward or Herbert George, nor the treason of depravity like John Amery, but the fully conscious treason of ideas. One was a Communist. One was a Fascist...
Plenty of other doors flew open. Rebecca, despite a somewhat unconstructed chin, had a beauty of face which was heightened by a beauty of the mind when her dark brown eyes grew intense with the animation of ideas. Talk poured from her in a brilliant jet, and had upon her listeners the effect of an electric impulse. She has been talking ever since, for her writing is, in fact, a burst of brilliant conversation...