Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before making up its mind on the third-reactor issue, the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy held extensive closed-door hearings. A special panel of four outside experts, including onetime AEChairman Gordon Dean, unanimously concluded that "present and planned output of reactor products is substantially inadequate to meet the minimum future needs of the armed services," and a parade of witnesses agreed...
...often cannot tell the difference between city and farm customers. His wife has already digested Vogue and the latest Paris fashions. Says Mrs. Nadean Reynolds, who had to park and walk eight blocks to her dress shop in Maryville, Mo. (pop. 6,834) last week: "I didn't mind. The parking spaces were taken up by customers. A chemise among the cornstalks isn't news any more...
Short, apple-round and learnedly garrulous, Ambrose ambles through his adventures preceded by a pillar of chaos. While bodies are felled and dark deeds are done all about him, the philosophy don lets Bach's Magnificat sing through his mind, ruminates about Hegel, and numbs his listeners with a flow of quotes from the Bible, Shakespeare, major poets and minor limericists. On the track of a murderer, Ambrose, like an unleashed puppy, will spot a new scent-a hitherto unexplored connection between the Book of Kings and the lost Amazonian city of Pirahuanaco...
Freud discovered mythology and meaning in the dream, explained Hamlet and charted the mind by means of Oedipus. Jung wrote of archetypes, of the recurring myth in art, of the common symbols of man. There is a racial consciousness, a spiritus mundi--human history is community property among the family of artists. But the word has supplanted the Idea...
...descent to the depths among the witches and warlocks of Paris was written in the first year of the '90s, and nothing more appalling appeared in the rest of that de cadent decade. Là-Bas, now republished in the U.S., might well call to the mind of old-fashioned readers Browning...