Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dancing vigor of the words is Playboy's only great distinction, except perhaps for a quality of tough-spirited, oddly joyous compassion--which amounts largely to the same thing. The plotting is tenuous, and the characters while vivid and attractive do not take up permanent residence in the mind, as great comic characters do. The cast of the present revival is not much help. But the play has lived fifty years on its dancing words alone, and it is alive and lovely still...
...carpet slippers, on any one of dozens of planes, Dulles, world citizen, would pull out a whodunit from his worn briefcase ("The detective must put his mind to work-my mind is relaxed as I read of his deductions"), or, as he often did, make plans in mid-Atlantic to stop off for a swim at Bermuda...
Britain has never fully come to grips with the discovery of electricity. In all but the newest buildings, electrical equipment and wiring run to as many different types and sizes as the fanciful British mind could devise. There are fused plugs and unfused plugs, plugs with two prongs and plugs with three prongs, with round prongs and square prongs. There are plugs the size of kumquats, walnuts, pingpong balls and lemons. Some appliances have three-strand wire, some two. The voltage may be either 210, 220 or 240-or in a few areas, 110. When an American visitor tries...
...Good Omen) met an unusual reception. Instead of showing reverence, people cracked seemingly typical Zen koans (problem riddles). "You look like the one who was admiring nude pictures," giggled one housewife, slamming the door in a novice priest's face. Snapped another tart-tongued woman: "Wash out your mind before I fill your bowl...
...thoughts, or serving a purpose. Another surprising discovery for the college president is to find how little of his time, thought and energy goes into education. Eventually his preoccupation with 'housekeeping,' however irritating and deplorable it may be to a new president of scholarly interests, weans the mind and creates a mood of resignation. Soon he finds his colleagues making references to books he has not read." The average term for a college president, says Stoke, is four years...