Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sharply diverging from the views expressed by E. M. Forster, British novelist and critic, in Thursday's opening meeting, Professor Edgar Wind of Smith College suggested that a split between the critical and creative states of mind is not between men, but within the individual...
Forster defined the "creative state of mind" as one "nourished by the subconscious." The critical state, on the other hand, keeps everything conscious with its central aim being to consider a work of art in terms of itself rather than in terms of the rest of the world...
...England's raw weather, rather than Navy, M.I.T. or Penn, in the big weight on crew coach Tom Bolles' mind today as the takes his Varsity and Jayvee boats out on the Severn River at Annapolis in preparation for tomorrow's regatta...
...Vermont town, and within twelve months was spouting like a native. Then he became a hotel waiter and moved successively through Boston, New York, Denver, Los Angels, and San Francisco. In 1914, after two years spent back in Greece fighting in the First Balkan War he made up his mind that the time for youthful flings was over and that destiny was calling. he got a job as a waiter in a Boston hotel. Within thirteen months he saved sixteen hundred dollars and made two acquaintances who were to prove extremely useful. One of them was a wealthy and influential...
...guidance talks, which have included discussions of teaching, business, and medicine as vocations, are designed by the placement office as an aid to the College man in making up his mind what studies to pursue...