Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best, this machinery produces intellectual discipline. At its worst it becomes a "the tell'em, test'em, tell'em" theory, according to which the mind is likened to a sponge which can only be made pliable by soaking up some of the moist facts and concepts which the scholars annually pour over...
...great mind leapt to the peak...
...none of them, thus underscoring Kazantzakis' belief that each man must make his own spiritual odyssey; no one else can make it for him, no ready-made belief can serve for each individual. The search is one for freedom-freedom from the demands of Odysseus' heart and mind. Kazantzakis seems to say: not until Odysseus is delivered from doubt, fear and even hope can he reach anything close to serenity. That he is never delivered does not matter; God may even be the search...
...suspense by merely delaying the story with digressions, or by causing the characters to become confused: " 'He had stopped understanding things over an hour ago.' The idea is that the reader, also bewildered, will feel breathlessly eager to recover his wits and will call the anxiety suspense. Mind is explicitly excluded." Moreover, the new detective fiction is badly put together ("The prevailing impression is of writing by a gifted child with a poor education"). And the authors are so busy treating love affairs "sensitively," making character studies, examining race prejudice, family tensions and other neuroses, that they...
...FOUR TO GO, by Rex Stout (Viking; $2.95), is "compact and full of meat . . . The use of the mind is. as always, pre-eminent...