Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to take it," he told a friend. "I'm going to stay with Procter & Gamble. But I'm not going to be satisfied to be advertising manager." At that time he was still years away from being advertising manager-but he had already made up his mind to be president...
...education is primarily a matter of attitudes. By an educated man I mean one who has achieved a self-knowledge of his ignorance and consequently has waked up from his dogmatic slumber; one who has a sense of wonder leading to active inquiry--and here I have in mind a concern for the truth, rather than showing off one's cleverness. Finally, education should give a man the most rigorous methods and standards, thus ensuring that his inquiry is disciplined and effective. Great aims involve great risks; independence may turn into arrogance, glibness be mistaken for understanding, showmanship replace truthmanship...
...ward, there was nothing wrong with the students except that they had gone without sleep for as long as 72 hours. They were volunteer subjects in a study (one of several under way in various medical centers) to assess the effects of sleep loss on a man's mind and body...
Others feel just as strongly that an executive is better off in a company school, where he can learn more lessons immediately valuable to his firm. They insist that picking out a few men to go off to school while the others mind the store is bad for morale. Burroughs Corp. prefers to teach executives in its own way rather than have them go off to school and pick up ideas that might not fit into the company's scheme. Furthermore, since executive training has become so popular, some companies feel that many colleges have set up inferior courses...
...Providence has under its special care children, idiots, and the United States of America." This famed remark, attributed to Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth), was a Briton's backhanded way of saying that the U.S. was a success. With few such perceptive quips but a relentless, mind-clogging avalanche of scholarly quotes, furrow-browed Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, 55, says much the same thing in his physically massive (1,036 pages) survey of America as a Civilization. The unavowed note of irony is that, like many a liberal-leftist prodigal son of the age, Lerner, who regularly...