Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well in the forefront of Macmillan's mind, however, were the domestic political advantages of a mission to Moscow. Recent polls show his Tory Party trailing Labor in popularity for the first time in eight months; unemployment, which stands at 531,000, has hurt the Conservatives. Any kind of a diplomatic success would give him a talking point should he decide to call a general election before the end of the year. In the House of Commons the universal good-natured reaction to news of Macmillan's Moscow trip was expressed by Labor M.P. Jean Mann. Said...
...conflict between these two groups is primarily at the symbolic level. For traditionalists, any use of the word "growth" or "adjustment" is enough to induce rage, no matter what the context or meaning. Conversely, for many progressives the suggestion that knowledge is best organized into "subjects," or that the mind can profit from "discipline," raises such a repellent image of rote learning and tedious pedantry that they will hear no more of the matter...
There are probably almost as many reasons for collecting works of art as there are for producing them in the first place. To the painter, the mind of the patron is something of a mystery. To the father of the work, its raison-d'etre is clear and inevitable. But those who consider themselves amateurs, if not connoisseurs, more often than not have other ideas. The most puissant dealers have proven to be agile psychologists, time and time again...
...suggestions for remedying the problem come easily to mind. One may, regretfully, say that the unfortunate difficulty posed by science's abstraction is here to stay and wish that Galileo had never been born; but this wish, in the face of man's persistent curiosity, is hopelessly naive...
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Return of a series for culture vultures; the first mind to be plucked belongs to Edith Hamilton, 91, who has made ancient Greece her own garden...