Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long after you have forgotten the skinny little kid living macho fantasies in the cockpit of the MG Midget or the paunchy men pretending they are seriously considering the Jaguar, and long after all the slimy automotive marketing hype has slipped from your mind, one sad image from the auto show stays with...
...Almighty God." There was immediate opposition. Congressman Thomas Tucker, wary of the threat of Big Government, declared that the House "had no business to interfere in a matter which did not concern them." Added he: "Why should the President direct the people to do what, perhaps, they have no mind...
After considering every possible alternative, the Shah has made up his mind to stay in Iran with his people. He does not believe that he is finished, not even close to it. Despite the disappointments and the brutal punishment he has taken in the streets, he feels it is his duty to protect the throne and thus his country. He believes one day his son, Crown Prince Reza, 18, will ascend the throne. But not now, not even under a regency council. The Shah wants his heir to have a viable monarchy, not a weak one. As for talk about...
...rarely needed notes, she also carried a heavy teaching schedule, lecturing before enthusiastic classes at both Columbia and Fordham universities. She established a hall of the Peoples of the Pacific at the American Museum of Natural History, where she was curator of ethnology. She brought a keen, insatiably curious mind and anthropological insights to bear on the problems of her own society and, with a confidence that made it clear she would brook no arguments, spoke out frequently on social and political problems that many of her colleagues preferred to avoid...
...sort out these social mysteries? It has become extremely complicated to be polite in America. There was a time when the upwardly mobile and socially inecure believed as fervently as The Four Hundred that there existed somewhere?in the mind of God, perhaps, or the graven tablets of Emily Post?an absolute standard of The Correct. All contingencies were covered in this elaborate system of law, as refined as the Talmud and sometimes as difficult to interpret. But trying to cultivate manners today is like buying a house in Grosse Pointe and discovering that the previous tenants were the Symbionese...