Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sight at Tanforan (in his stall) but not out of mind was Shannon II-a horse close to the heart of every California race fan. Next to Citation, he is probably the fastest horse in the world today. Shannon is a seven-year-old bay stallion, Australian by birth and friendly as an overgrown puppy. Unlike Citation, everything about him is controversial-even his pedigree...
Henry Adams had damned the place with the faintest of praise. "Harvard College," he wrote, "was probably less hurtful than any other university ... It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile . . ." In effect, "the school created a type but not a will. Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
...mother consulted another mind-quack about her eleven-year-old "problem child." The quack recommended sending the child to a boarding school where she would get strict discipline. The child, who needed love more than punishment, became a mental case, perhaps incurable...
...estate) thought he had a plush as well as a profitable property. It was profitable, all right: the net matched his investment of $1,600,000 in less than two years. But after Schine invited Designer Norman Bel Geddes to look the place over last summer, he changed his mind about the plushness...
...learned but conventional professor. (One happy exception: the chapter on "American Language," in which the gay, strong hand of H. L. Mencken quickly shows itself.) What a reader misses here is what he finds in Vernon Louis Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought: one mind in command of a subject, sometimes pulling a boner but more often arousing excitement and curiosity, and always leaving on the reader the sharp stamp of an individual point of view...