Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desire to concentrate in the sciences, but a considerably smaller percentage actually does. Any number of factors might contribute to the drop-off--a sudden discovery of the liberal arts, a discouraging decline in grades, or possibly the deglamorization of the role of scientist in a freshman's mind (just as a horde of students who list "writer" as an occupational preference end up lawyers and teachers...
What was missing from an otherwise well-rounded essay was an appreciation of the intellectual service that often accompanies the work student leaders do. Most of us agree that one goal of education is, in the happy phrase of Master Brower of Adams House, "a mind that speaks for itself." Perhaps we all forget once in a while that such a mind needs a forum in which to be heard, a platform on which to stand, or an audience to enlighten. In practical terms, this means that the enormous intellectual value of college drama would be lost to both actors...
...objective point of view is that it can never do any harm to speak your mind, whether you are right or wrong. It's a little like voting: some people say you can't change the political scene by adding your vote to 100 million. By the same token, doesn't it do some good to sing one song and convince a few people...
...sake of his entirectiy," while the heroes of J.B. and Sweet Bird of Youth (the two plays most recently directed by Kazan) are concerned in their expiation only with themselves. "Somehow the connection between strong emotion and human responsibility seems to have been cut off in his mind--and other people...
...splitnik: "There is no more truth in showing this as the typical home of the American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what such furniture might cost in Moscow's GUM-if it were ever available there-Macy's was guilty of "propaganda" in saying that all that luxurious furniture could be bought...