Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose is to transform a child into a man; but there is no work that makes so happy those who do it well . . . The best teacher is willing to be forgotten. His only reassurance needs to be the faith that somehow his efforts have increased the amount of mind in a world which can never have too much of that commodity . . . His final reward is the quality of his life, which teaching has helped to shape...
...become even more scarce since A Program for Harvard College began. Mrs. Pusey is included in many of the fund-raising trips, and observes: "It's important to interest wives in the Program. It is not like a five dollar contribution, where the husband can make up his own mind...
...House is trying to get its concentrators into tutorials with a House-affiliated tutor. Neither of these goals should be sacrificed to "mixed tutorial." But "mixed tutorial" should be added as a third important objective by both large and small departments and by the Houses. With these objectives in mind, the problem of non-resident tutor offices becomes clearer. Perhaps these tutors will be given space at Radcliffe, perhaps in a vacant room left in a House after deconversion. It doesn't really matter. Radcliffe has had to walk to the Houses for tutorial in the past...
Prospects, Author Tracy's Mind Yott, I've Said Nothing! is a kind of Fielding's Guide to the national mentality that can spawn a Tommy O'Driscoll. The salient points to remember about Ireland, according to Author Tracy, are 1) that its public attitudes never have any bearing on its private ones: "It is the land of Double Think and Double Speak" where ''words are used as . . . a device for concealment": 2) that the main concern of every Irishman is saving face, and 3) that no Irishman is truly happy except when...
Home Before Dark. Jean Simmons suffers nobly as a wife returning from a dark night of the mind, and Dan O'Herlihy is excellent as the husband who does not understand the situation...