Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool Philharmonic musicians the way to play Mozart (a way few critics quarrel with) and gave his admirers another piece of his mind. "There is no great music being written today . . . Modern music is not only dead but thrice damned...
...favorite target of the psychiatrists. Puritanical homes are often blamed for giving children a neurotic attitude toward sex. But one psychiatrist thinks that modern parents can carry their modernism too far. Dr. Flanders Dunbar, 46, mother of a seven-year-old daughter and author of the 1947 bestseller Mind and Body (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), sounds the warning in her new book, out this week, Your Child's Mind and Body (Random House...
...flying-saucer idea sank into the public mind, all sorts of mysterious swooping things were reported. Policemen in Portland, Ore. saw discs that looked like 'shiny chromium hubcaps." Two pilots n Alabama saw a huge black object bigger than an airliner. A man in Oklahoma City saw a "saucer" as bulky as six 6-B29s. A prospector in the Cascade Mountains saw six discs that made the needle of his compass gyrate wildly. Little children saw little discs. Two kids in Hamel, Minn, reported that a dull grey disc two feet across had come right down between...
...fashionable Hollywood psychiatrist diagnosed the general mental state of his patients: "In their subconscious minds it all looked like disaster . . . Now they see it will be all right." Some of the psychiatrist's patients may have been holding out on him. The bestsellers at a leading Hollywood bookstore were still Peace of Mind, A Guide to Confident Living, and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living...
...Criminal Mind. In Paris, police reported that someone broke into the Van Craeyenest Circus and stole a lion. In Oakland, Calif., Bert W. Harberg was arrested on charges of selling a government-owned bridge. In Sturgis, Ky., residents enjoyed one free parking space because someone stole a parking meter from Adams Street...