Word: minding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, supporters outnumber detractors. Harvard's Bruner, Piaget's most appreciative critic in the U.S., voices a common reaction when he acknowledges that Piaget's general conception of the growing mind "is so compelling that even in attacking it one is inevitably influenced by it." At the very least, Jean Piaget has enabled adults to approach children more sensitively and realistically-and perhaps even with greater...
Combining a scholar's passion for detail with a novelist's fertile imagination, Mujica-Lainez set about constructing from the few known facts a sumptuous, fictional Doge's Palace of the mind. Like that famous seat of the Venetian Republic, whose ceiling, walls and floors constitute a convulsion of visual splendor, Bomarzo's pages glitter with descriptions of processions, land and naval battles, landscapes, a courtesan's sultry rec room and a cabalist's murky study...
Mujica-Lainez focuses this aesthetic and religious conflict in the mind and body of Bomarzo's Duke Orsini. He recreates him as a hunchback who tells the story of his life as an omniscient observer, not only aware of his own time but of events from the time of his death until the present. Mujica-Lainez's implication is clear: Orsini's true immortality resides not in the few historical facts and artifacts we know but in his re-creation as a fictional character...
...friends Dewey Wood and de Forrest? Most of his acquaintances have the names of plants or trees: Maddy Beecher, Oliver Plane, Ivy Bowles, Lief Lund. John Plante, Cassia Meaning. Or is Cassia Meaning a pun on catch ya meaning? The word plays are both frivolous and serious, representing "the mind's fierce fuss, forever discontinuous...
Astrology in my mind is associated with gypsy palmists and gray bearded men in starry dunce caps. Although I have never bothered to explore astrology, I still view this cybernetic intruder with distaste, in rather the same way I regard the industrial concerns which ravage the forests I have never taken time to visit. Some things should just be left alone. As a picturesque fantasy, astrology is rather quaint; when it takes on scientific pretensions, it becomes a cheap fraud...