Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five-sided Pentagon had developed a one-track mind. With keen accord, Army, Navy and Air Force last week were figuring out ways and means to keep the services within the spending ceilings set by Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson. Items...
Prospect: a strong resolution in the U.N. condemning French intransigence. The U.S. has not yet made up its mind how to vote...
Cozzens has lived by Joycean "silence, exile and cunning" without quitting U.S. shores. But since a writer's secrets cannot be kept from his books and hence his readers, the popular mind has perhaps intuitively felt the "outsider" in its midst. For Cozzens is really alien grain in the American corn. Americans (particularly American writers) are apt to be romantics to the point of being moistly sentimental; Cozzens is classical, dry, cerebral. Americans have a youth complex; Cozzens has an age complex. Americans are optimistic; Cozzens is pessimistic (he would say realistic). Americans like change; Cozzens accepts but deplores...
...twitting himself, his wife ("You're not aware, not tuned to me; you don't handle me carefully") or his new dentist ("All he says is 'Hello, sit down, RINSE.' This peach-fuzz youth, with every tooth in his cheeky cheek, right off, mind you-RINSE!"). Nugent's bland mixture of pathos, petulance and salt was especially savory when he gave himself a frank appraisal, found his face looking like a "leftover artichoke," his teeth "dropping like loose buttons," his body "convex where it should be concave-or have I got my cons mixed...
...adventure story of an explorer. But beneath the surface, it is really a self-examining essay in which the continent's odd geography, zoology and climate serve as a metaphor for White's real theme-the uncharted journey into the dry, unblazed interior of the Australian mind. Landscape is the protagonist. It is said of one character: "His failures took shape, but in flowers and mountains." Another character speaks of "the grey of mediocrity" (the color of the Australian earth and foliage) and the "blue of frustration" (the color of the rainless skies), and these comprise the palette...