Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Muscle-Bound Mind. The aroused astronomer carried his war to the BBC last week, got vigorous bene and male from the press. The Daily Telegraph cried O tempora, O Lyttleton: "There could be no worse argument in favor of this jejune and illiberal measure than that Latin is a dead language and should therefore remain dead . . . The truth is that the study of Latin is a training for the muscles of the mind." But the Daily Mirror's Cassandra argued that Latin had muscle-bound his mind. He began by declining mensa (table), then wrote: "This nonsense I have...
...From Ensign Ichizo Hayashi, reared as a Christian, to his mother: "On our last sortie we will be given a package of bean curd and rice. It is reassuring to depart with such good luncheon fare . . . I do not want you to grieve over my death. I do not mind if you weep. Go ahead and weep. But please realize that my death is for the best, and do not feel bitter about it. I have had a happy life . . . I will precede you now, mother, in the approach to Heaven...
LOLITA, by Vladimir Nabokov. The year's most controversial novel and also, by all odds, the best written. Simply as the story of a perverted sexual adventure, it is shocking. As an exploration of the secret places of the heart, mind and spirit, ruled by terrible private devils, it moves beyond shock into compassion...
...takes her for granted, is an Italian; but she stands for the mammas of all countries who belatedly think that devotion to home and family have robbed them of more exciting ways to live. Author de Céspedes is a better guide to the female heart and mind than most of the psychologists in the bookstalls...
...COMPLETE LETTERS OF VINCENT VAN GOGH, translated by C. de Dood. From 1872 to 1890, when the last letter was found on his suicide's body, Van Gogh set down a harrowing record of frustrations, assorted guilts and illnesses of the mind and body. The letters find a beautiful monument in this magnificent example of bookmaking...