Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underneath the man who produced volumes of scholarly works was a sensitive mind, philosophically aware of man's comparative insignificance in a huge universe: "Sometimes I fear that we are all donkeys together--we foolish mortals--braying dissonantly at each other and taking our hee-haws for the oracles of Apollo--shaking our ears in the moonlight, and interpreting their shifting shadows as glimpses of the infinite...
...religious. Insofar as the Memorial Church had come into my consciousness, it had done so with the dignity of a place of worship. I had attended weddings there, had heard a great preacher in the Church, and the tolling of the Church bell is deeply associated in my mind with the last service read for some of my most beloved teachers. I am not a religious man in the traditional sense and do not belong formally to a denomination. I am a secular Jew. Until now I had never felt that my religious origins or my lack of religious affiliation...
Wounded, Nebu tries to get to a white town to deliver the boy to his friends. In his uncomplicated Kikuyu mind, he knows that he has wronged his white master and wants to atone by returning the youngster. As he carries him through the bush, trailed by a leopard waiting for a chance to make a double kill, Nebu is tormented by his son's presence even more than by his festering wound. The leopard, an implacable figure of retribution, provides a horrible ending that blends all the tragic elements of white, black and half-black frustrations and hatred...
...succeeded as does The Leopard in making clear how the black man rationalizes his murderous bent. What is even more remarkable is Author Reid's ability to create a feeling for the land itself, to blend a lyrical, near-poetic portrait of a primitive mind with his brutal subject matter. Unashamedly contrived, his book is quite simply a brief imaginative triumph...
With this financial peace of mind, likened by Sloan Wilson, sometime teacher of English, to a professor's "permanent tenure," Novelist Wilson, at 37, hopes to become "an old-fashioned man of letters whose obituary lists 20 or so novels to his credit." Unpretentious about his writing so far ("a small, humble and private thing"), Wilson would like most "to describe my own Marquand-type society with Hemingway's power." With his blond, blue-eyed, Ivy League good looks, Wilson leads a quiet life in not quite Marquand-type country (Pound Ridge. N.Y.), has only one major crotchet...