Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comments on Burke's dissent: "I am disappointed in him, regard it as regrettable. I think he's a fine officer. I am sorry he's mistaken in this respect." In testifying on the Administration's reorganization proposals, declares McElroy, military officers should bear in mind the President's publicly and emphatically expressed views...
...Giant & the Dwarf. Annoyed and perhaps surprised by the outcry, Khrushchev & Co. had nonetheless calculatedly brought it on themselves, and with an internal purpose in mind: restoring iron discipline within the Soviet empire. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito last week found himself all but excommunicated by his erstwhile pals in Peking. Tito, snarled Peking's People's Daily, spoke with "the voice of a traitor," and his criticisms of Communist China (TIME, June 30) were those of "a dwarf kneeling in the mud and trying . . . to spit at a giant standing on a lofty mountain...
...which Composer Stockhausen spent a year and a half, utilized the sound of the human voice along with pure electronic sounds. Fragmented into vowels and consonants and later reassembled, the voice sounded "Praise the Lord" over weird sonorities. Later, a panel tackled the question on everybody's mind: Is this still music? Yes, said the panelists (including Stockhausen), despite letters from puzzled listeners asking whether their radios had been affected by "interplanetary static" or whether they had been listening to "part of the opera Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...become oppressive, he recalls a dentist whose nurses made him feel that "dying in the midst of these happy smiles and the angel wings of these white, immaculate uniforms would be a pure pleasure, a moment of no consequence . . . I left this dentist, in order to protect within my mind the Christian idea of death...
...other humans. As a boy, Yozo has merely to watch the rest of the family of ten devour its food to lose his own appetite. When his father asks Yozo what present he wants from Tokyo, his first impulse is to answer: "Nothing." ("The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference.") To mask his apartness, the youngster feels that he must play the clown, wins from his schoolmates the title of "Harold Lloyd of Northeast Japan...