Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miyoshi was still self-conscious because her voice was not the usual high-pitched Japanese voice, but Giannini put her at her ease. "This American man gave me courage," says Miyoshi. "He said, 'Don't feel ashamed of your voice. Song is not only voice; is heart, mind...
...serious vein, there is the calm, careworn father, his hand in groceries, his mind with God. There is the blunt, slangy, kindly matron who wants to marry everyone off; the professional matchmaker, with his human goldbricks and his spiel; the absurdly natty, paunchy, rich upstart. As they cluck, strut, brag, fib, fence, they have no great personal identity; they spill over indeed into caricature. But they boast a sort of tribal flesh; their pretenses and deprecations and denials are bequests from a world of hard competition to a world...
...than he has to any other in centuries." So says Poet Archibald MacLeish, 66, author of Broadway's latest hit (see THEATER). J.B. is an analogy between the Bible's searching sufferer and modern man. In the New York Times, MacLeish explains the necessities of heart and mind that led him to write the play; he also gives a moving view of his generation's despair-and hope...
...said the FPC in its appeal, would "bar the pipelines from utilizing the means best calculated to give them the necessary rate flexibility" and "would ultimately hurt the consumer instead of protecting him." Since the FPC usually takes anywhere from six months to two years to make up its mind, the Memphis decision put a damper on the expansion plans of many gas companies; they feared it would take too long to get needed rate increases. In asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm the FPC's longstanding rate-fixing practice, the solicitor general noted that "a substantial portion...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A comedy of horrors and a nightmare of the mind dressed up in brilliant writing...