Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jonathan Kozol has added another chapter to his saga of mental pathology. Insights and images accumulated while crawling through the sewers of the mind are tied together in a bitter-sweet package of sickness titled "The Ritual." If this sample is typical of the novel from which it is taken, it is hard to see how the full dosage can be made digestible...
Plays now under consideration for subsequent production are Antony and Cleopatra, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Great God Brown. Wolfson said that he has "leading" actors in mind for each of them...
...getting to be that time of year when seniors wonder who will make their graduation famous by receiving honorary degrees at Commencement. With due sense of humility about the embarrassment it may cause to some but with its mission of truth firmly in mind, the CRIMSON takes some pleasure in announcing its Third Annual Name the Honoraries Contest...
This is where the tax collector comes in. Cedric is a toothbrush-mustached city mouse with "office-pale hands," as limp as "tired celery." But in Ma and Pop's peasant-shrewd eyes, he is a potential husband, if only they can take his mind off his tax forms and put it on Mariette's still flawless figure. Ma starts fattening up Cedric with goodies from the "frige." Pop rechristens the tax man "Charlie," and plies him with a Rolls-Royce ("half vermouth, quarter whisky, quarter gin, dash of orange bitters") followed by a Chauffeur ("one-third vermouth...
...post-World War II France all the moral and political catnip of a Dreyfus case. Dujardin, a member of the French underground, is in jail, has been marked for death as one of the guilty who directed the massacre of a whole French village called Montpelle (which calls to mind France's nonfictional Oradour-Sur-Glane). To the French Left he becomes a martyr, and "Liberez Dujardin" is scrawled on every wall in Paris. Only the evidence of Stone, who is now symbolical of the dead (he is now with the United States Army Graves Registration), can prove that...