Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Census men are doubly puzzled by the pressure because 1) they think that statistics on religious affiliation might help the U.S. to understand itself better, and 2) in making informal population reports (where answers to questions are not mandatory) they have discovered that most people don't mind answering the question...
Colin, age four, "has a lightness of touch and a dexterity that will certainly put him on top of the heap if he ever takes up safe-cracking." His twin, Johnny, is a victim of the chaos and disorder which exist to be-wilder the precise mind. "Indeed," Mother reports, "if one of the beans on his plate is slightly longer than the others he can scarcely bear to eat it." The youngest child is fortunately only seventeen months old and only gurgles and smiles. His parents nevertheless have great hopes that he will grow up to be as eccentric...
...tries to develop this idea humorously but fails, because she never makes up her mind whether she is going to be an intellectual or a humorist. Being one obviously does not preclude being the other, but Miss Wright is neither intelligently humorous nor humorously intelligent. She is Gertrude Stein reciting a comic monologue, which is absurd but not funny...
Tonight, if the Crimson can keep its mind off its post-Christmas vacation Ivy League duels, it should avenge last year's upset. A win would tie last year's six-game win streak, the longest for the varsity in a decade...
...addendum, Aron says: "If tolerance is born of doubt, let us teach everyone to doubt all the models and Utopias." Logician Aron should know that doubt in one thing issues from faith in another. In any case, his is an unpractical enterprise in the present state of the French mind-like sending Coke to Cognac. He leaves France with nothing more nourishing than a paradox: "Let us pray for the advent of the sceptics...