Word: minding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNEXPECTED UNIVERSE, by Loren Eiseley. A paean to the possibilities of man in an age of the machine by the anthropolater and author of The Immense Journey and The Mind as Nature...
...fact. But to lean on that fact quite so heavily may not be the wisest form of leadership. The majority rules, and it should-but it is sometimes wrong and often fickle. What (it is intriguing to speculate) would the President do if his present majority should change its mind and turn against his policies? One thing, though: the President has not yet taken to carrying different opinion polls, Johnson-style, in all his pockets...
...went to the President's aides very early in the game, when the smoke began to rise, and conveyed my serious doubts about the nomination," says Mathias. "They asked me to keep an open mind to the end. So I did not put myself in the position of an irreversible commitment." But Mathias could not shake his doubts about Haynsworth. "There is a crying need for the Supreme Court to be lifted above controversy and suspicion. I also wondered what effect a condonation of Judge Haynsworth's actions would have on the judiciary at large. I could only...
...reported, "simply went nuts," blistering the air with a string of oaths and obscenities, whereupon the cops hustled her off to jail on charges of using profanity and indecent language. Free on bail, the queen of hyperthyroid blues insisted: "I say anything I want onstage. I don't mind getting arrested because I've turned a lot of kids...
Instead the counselor reviews five alternatives that undoubtedly she has pondered herself-marriage, offering the child for adoption, keeping the baby, abortion and suicide-and checks her moral reaction to each alternative. Admits Bielby: "By the time a woman has decided to call us, her mind is pretty well made up that an abortion is what she wants. What we do is try to make her aware of her feelings and moral convictions. This is a moral decision, not a medical...