Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a man has been cornered at bar rail or cocktail table by an expert, and felt his eyes glazing and his mind wandering desperately like a white mouse in an empty cakebox. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Stephen Potter, a BBC director and father of Gamesmanship ("The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating"-TIME, Sept. 6), offered such defensive citizens the art of Lifemanship...
...week's end, the commission ordered the railroad to go on stopping at Electra until it could examine all evidence and hand down a permanent ruling. Mayor Moore was jubilant-he was certain that no man in his right mind would vote to make the biggest little town in Texas a whistle stop...
...full authority to run L.S.U. "without political or other interference." For the university which had been one of Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most of them appointees of "reform" Governors Sam Houston Jones and James Houston Davis, had been looking for an out-of-state educator who was neither a veteran of past L.S.U. ruckuses* with Huey Long or his political heirs, nor a henchman...
...Knees. Bérard often spoke a little wistfully of the paintings he was doing or of others he had in mind, but the few finished pictures he did produce were apt to be dim, moody echoes of the Renaissance masters. In view of all this, many an art critic wondered if he could be considered a true painter at all. When Novelist Gertrude Stein once put that harsh question to him, Berard fell on his knees protesting, "Yes, oh, yes!" Last week, a Manhattan gallery staged a posthumous show of his portraits that helped to tip the decision...
...celebrating his 70th birthday, a good part of England was helping him along. Even the British press, in the recent past not so charitable about their great conductor's churlishness, blossomed with flowery lead editorials on the great day. Said the Times: "Music is the medicine of the mind and Sir Thomas . . . is among the best doctors of the age, combining high professional skill with a highly popular bedside manner." Said the Manchester Guardian: "Sir Thomas . . . has always been and will always be an individualist. Everybody, including those on whose corns he has trodden, will wish him many years...