Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first solution considered was that of the modern Hindu mystics, represented by the Indian philosopher Radhakrishnan, who seeks to reduce all religious concepts to a common denominator of mystical truth. But in retracting his mind from all contact wtih his senses, the Hindu fails to extract the essence of all religion, and instead attempts to find the way to essential truth through his mystical vision. Newbigin declared that men are too much caught in the concentration of life to avoid its problems by inward contemplation...
...visions," they conclude, "we should be making a great mistake if we attributed Joan's greatness to organic disease alone . . . It is not her visions and voices, but her courage, her intelligence, her ability to get big things done, and her struggle for the independence of her mind which distinguish Joan and place her among the great women...
...Brando? Meanwhile, the Bird is busy with his other charges. Hollywood recognized his belligerent direction behind Director Rouben Mamoulian's recent spat with Sam Goldwyn. (Even Mamoulian does not seem to mind that the publicity-reaping battle cost him the job of directing Porgy and Bess.) And not long ago, Birdwell sold gullible movie columnists the phony yarn that Greta Garbo had expressed an interest in the movie version of Lolita. Director Stanley Kubrick, who is Birdwell's client, is supposed to have ruled Garbo out of Lolita but offered her the part of Marlon Brando...
...capable of absorbing. The proposition is hardly alarming, but by the book's end it has left a trail like a runaway milkwagon horse. Among the casualties: the British Labor Party (which Young served as research secretary from 1945-51); the commissar's cast of mind that sees education solely as a means for national advancement; the sociologist's view of the individual as a cell that lives for the benefit of the organism, society; and the psychologist's notion that intelligence and aspiration can be measured like prize trout...
...like the brave young worldling who wrote Crome Yellow. Most original Huxleyism is a suggested law on the lines of habeas corpus, which would be a habeas mentem for the human race. Roughly translated it would mean the right for all to say: keep your dirty hands off my mind...