Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower-Macmillan agreement to accept Polish and Czechoslovakian observers at the May foreign ministers' conference should indeed "look fine" to Nikita Khrushchev. Every additional conference at which the dummy governments of Russia's colonies are given recognition adds to their populations' resignation of mind, and makes it possible for Russia to keep fewer troops and tanks in such imprisoned countries to control the people. The Russian hoods are hoodwinking us again...
...measured on the earth below. Physicians will be hearing the sounds of his heart, the sounds of his breathing, watching the electrical activity of his heart and muscles and taking his temperature and blood pressure, all by remote control and radio link. He may feel less sure in his mind as to the state of his psychological being. The curious finger of fate has pointed him out to be hurled into space to make the supreme test as to whether man can function and survive space travel. He has been chosen as the one single sample from all the billions...
...long, twisting corridors. Without playmates or attending parents, the Dalai Lama matured early, and at 14 he visited Lhasa's great monasteries of Drepung and Sera to engage in religious disputation with their learned abbots. This was a critical moment, for upon his intelligence and agility of mind would depend the future balance of power. He would not be deposed should he fail the examination, but he could be turned into a puppet-a Living Buddha who was easily manipulated by shrewd and able monks...
...street fighting, they were angrily called to the office of a professor and given a thorough tongue lashing. The substance of his anger was these promising senior scholars had not yet realized that to be a scholar implies a strong degree of moral conscience, than the life of the mind demands a commitment to responsible moral action. It is this statement, so important for an academic community to understand and accept, that has perhaps been lost amid administrative desires to avoid paternalism and bad publicity...
...with a private tutor at home, he commits himself to participation in the College community. This includes the commitment to provide for as adequate representation of students to the administration as possible, so that steps may be taken to improve the college and the curriculum with the student in mind. It includes the commitment of those who choose to be student-leaders to remain faithful to the wishes of those who elect them, to place their leader selves in subordination to their student selves, thus to immerse themselves more thoroughly in the purposes and moral standards of an academic community...