Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pity for the Mind. First came his blunt reasons why he thinks that the Administration's new space program ought to be directed by a civilian agency. "The Defense department is already too large," said he, "and if you let it grow on as it is, it soon will be controlling the country...
...idea that the U.S. ought to spend its time and money in a space race with Russia-that, to Rickover's mind, is so much hot air. "The most pressing problem" is education...
John Eyre's academic experience has been a mixed one. "I have great respect for the field of English, perhaps less so for the department. I threatened to resign from the university and go to Oxford when they reneged on permission to write a thesis." He changed his mind about doing honors but wrote a thesis anyway on Anglo-Saxon poetry, a taste he acquired at Oxford, where such matters are encouraged to the point of compulsion...
Aspiring HSA photographers, previously contacted by Harpel, will meet today for a test of their technical competence. Harpel, not a photographer himself, says that he has a professional student photographer in mind as his "production manager...
Last week the University of Oklahoma Hospitals reported that rarely in medical annals has the poignant phenomenon of false pregnancy-pseudocyesis-survived such odds of matter over mind. Pseudocyesis is older than Hippocrates, has affected subjects from seven to 79. Modern medicine knows it as a mental condition, arising from emotional needs so intense that they lead to suppression of menstruation, distention of the abdomen, enlargement of the breasts, and morning nausea. Most cases involve psychotic women with a feeble grasp of reality. But this patient was not psychotic. Her perceptions were normal; she knew all along that the operation...