Word: minding
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OPINION Corruption of the Mind Still cherished by many Westerners is the hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders...
From the time they seized power 40 years ago, said Kennan, Russia's Communist bosses have used falsehoods as a deliberate weapon of policy. Four decades of cynical intellectual opportunism "have wrought a strange corruption of the Communist mind, rendering it incapable of distinguishing sharply between fact and fiction in its relationship to any external competitive power." Habitual abuse of truth has blurred in the minds of Communist leaders the distinction between what they really believe and what they find it expedient...
...West's viewpoint. "There is nothing that can be said to Mr. Khrushchev on any occasion by any Western figures, however illustrious, that would suddenly dispel his obscurity of vision. What we are confronted with is not just misunderstanding, not just honest error, but a habit of the mind, an induced state, a condition...
Among the 143 paintings and 43 sculptures, there were some works, of course, by a handful of men who stand above fashion. Charles Sheeler's California showed a moonlit village so radiant and calm as to bring Bethlehem to mind. Mark Tobey's Pacific Circle was as boldly abstract as anything on view, yet as subtle as it was bold; it pictured the elements mingling in a gentle storm...
...White, Weld & Co.: Unless the air-transport industry can earn the favorable opinion of investors, and in particular of the professional investor, "either the industry's progress will stop or the taxpayers will have to subsidize it again." So far are investors from that state of mind right now, said Clark, that "we can visualize the industry, even with reasonably good luck, being able to generate only $227 million of the $610 million still needed to pay for its new equipment." In Chicago, Eastern Air Lines Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker told a press conference that Eastern will "definitely have...