Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fitted in perfectly with a decision reached at the White House earlier in the week at the urging of Goldwater. California's Bill Knowland. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and other right-wing Republicans. With the McClellan committee's sordid revelations still vivid in the public mind, argued Goldwater & Co., it was good election-year politics to assault the Kennedy-Ives bill and try to pin a soft-on-labor rap on the Democrats. Decided Dwight Eisenhower: "Let's fight." Said Goldwater: "It's the only political issue we have...
...question of who would run for Senator against John Kennedy, there was a fast shuffle as onetime State Republican Chairman Charlie Gibbons, 57, rose to declare that he had changed his mind about wanting to be a U.S. Senator, instead would run for Governor, whether the convention endorsed him or not. Casting around for another fresh senatorial candidate (the term most used was "sacrificial lamb"), the Republicans roped in a Boston attorney named Vincent J. Celeste, 34, who ran once for city council, once for state representative, once for Congress (against Jack Kennedy in 1950) -and lost all three times...
Brooding over so-called horror movies and their influence on adolescents, Variety pointed out, in its most scholarly diction, that many psychiatrists disagree with "that element of the public which ascribes juve delinquency to crime pix and the harmful effect of horror pix on the young mind." Among the dissenters: Dr. Martin Grotjahn, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, who thinks that / Was a Teenage Werewolf, Blood of Dracula, etc. provide a means of "self-administered psychiatric therapy for America's adolescents.'' His cathartic argument: "Certain childhood anxieties never...
...Mind's Eye. If Twain the patriot was a cultural absolutist, Henry James the expatriate was a cultural relativist, full, as he put it, of "the baleful spirit of the cosmopolite-that uncomfortable consequence of seeing many lands and feeling at home in none." The virtue of that defect, as James saw it, was tolerance. Compared to Twain's polemic, The Art of Travel, Critic Morton Dauwen Zabel's splendidly edited sampling of James's travel pieces on England, France, Italy and the U.S., is sunny-tempered and severely self-controlled...
...mind's eye of James condoned what the camera eye of Twain condemned. Where Twain saw mere dirt, James saw the patina of centuries-old civilizations. Where Twain saw superstition and ignorance, James saw piety and a sense of the past. Standing within the basilica of St. Mark's, James spoke of its mosaic pavement as "dark, rich, cracked, uneven, spotted with porphyry and time-blackened malachite, polished by the knees of innumerable worshippers." Standing in the same spot, Twain observed: "Everything was worn out-every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands...