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Word: minding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully some alternative programs because the present ones obviously aren't working." Its ears tuned to the Kennedy voice, the crowd fairly forgot its old wounds, smothered him with applause. Said Governor Docking confidently, of Kennedy's 1960 chances: "There isn't any doubt in my mind that he will have our support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: On to the Midwest | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...television pitchman is wondrously simple: to get painlessly but surely inside the viewer's head. To make the dream come true, two young companies are peddling "subliminal perception," the psychological phenomenon whereby a sight too fleeting to register consciously takes root subtly in the viewer's subconscious mind. This technique could flash phantom plugs on the television screen at speeds too fast (around one three-thousandth of a second) for the viewer to realize that a Madison Avenue Rasputin was selling him beer not only between the rounds of a prizefight but between the very punches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Phantom Plug | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...that they had touched the Orwellian gimmick developed by Manhattan's Subliminal Projection Co., Inc. and Experimental Films Inc. of New Orleans, but some network executives seemed curious and interested. If the FCC discovers phantom plugs on the air waves, explained Doerfer, it must still make up its mind whether it has any control over them. But Representative Dawson is champing to introduce a bill outlawing any such tampering with the viewer's psyche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Phantom Plug | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...that the Life Force makes everything make sense. Presumably this is the sense, if any, of Wilson's conclusion: "If life did not pervade space and time, the universe of matter would be tohubohu, complete chaos." As for the present state of Colin Wilson's mind and thought-tohu-bohu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tohu-Bohu Kid | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...Mind Cure. In Atlanta, taking a tolerant view of the bigamy charge against Jackson L. Langford, 96, the solicitor general said that he probably got mixed up through "just being absent-minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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