Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flown most of the destructive missions over East Indonesia in which foreign and native shipping was sunk and damaged (TIME, May 12). Pope, a serious and not a swashbuckling type, had originally joined the rebels because he believed Indonesia was "turning Communist," said Pieters. He had now changed his mind and "expressed regret for what he had done." He will be tried by a military court...
What chills, what fears, what seductive impressions crossed the Russian's mind as at last he saw the place he had drawn so often and so critically? He cautiously refused to say, but did get out his drawing book for a sketch from life (see cut) that will presumably serve him well when he once again sits down at his drawing board in Russia...
...that ordinarily gives itself mostly to news, conventional features, and a fat assortment of advertising pages, last week handed its readers something new in its 18-year history: a thick supplement containing a new, brain-twitching book by a famed writer. The book's title: Tyranny Over the Mind. Author: English-born Novelist Aldous (Brave New World) Huxley...
...good mind is hard to find among the Beats, but the leading theoreticians of hipdom are probably Jack Kerouac and Clellon (Go) Holmes. Each insists that the Beat Generation is on a mystic search for God. To be beat, argues Holmes in a recent Esquire, is to be "at the bottom of your personality looking up." Says Kerouac: "I want God to show me His face." This might be more convincing if Kerouac's novels did not play devil's advocate by preaching, in effect, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of kicks," e.g., drink, drugs, jazz and chicks...
...treasure. And every time he digs in "God's Little Acre," the plot whose yield he has allotted to his church, Ty Ty reluctantly but firmly gives the Lord a less desirable piece of ground. "God's a big man," Ty Ty reasons. "He don't mind where I put his share long as he gets...