Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hates most is "the new age, the age of the galoot, the fast buck, the something-for-nothing crowd," and he goes out of his way to give every phony he sees a piece of his sharp mind...
DRAWINGS are to paintings what letters are to public declarations, or diaries to autobiographies, or songs to symphonies. Michelangelo called drawing the basis of almost all knowledge, believing that only the outline, on paper or in mind, can make meanings clear. Master drawings merge swift emotion with analysis. They are both personal and sharp...
...header off a cliff. Unlike the monster-painters, whose malformed "images of man" are the latest art fad (TIME, Sept. 7), Goya made the victims of inhumanity-in this case, obviously a chained father and son-touching by the simplicity of their unadorned humanity. Instead of titillating the mind with sadistic fantasies, Francisco Goya dizzies the heart with cruel fact...
...cadets. Dawkins will play Rugby only for his intramural Brasenose College team ("not with a splash, but gradually"). Hosmer will do some wistful spare-time flying ("All my classmates are in pilot training"). The real job is Oxford's challenging labor: the independent pursuit of "fineness of mind." All are reading "P.P.E." (philosophy-politics-economics), a stiff course enthusiastically approved by the U.S. military. "This is an ideal opportunity," says Pete Dawkins. "At West Point, we achieved a certain scope in our education. What we need now is depth...
...Illinois) and another under way in mathematics at U.C.L.A. An alumnus of Santa Monica's famed nonprofit Rand Corp., he now works for a similar "think palace," the Planning Research Corp. in Los Angeles. To a man of Kao's training, Newsboy Abdel's quick mind was obvious. "His goal is good," mused Kao. "He wants to be an educated...