Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still too early to predict Giamatti's response to these problems. He hopes to use a new attitude to confront these problems but declines to outline the pragmatic steps or policies he has in mind. When he goes home from work, "pounded by sensations, perspectives and urgencies--always the daily mix," Giamatti says, he is not preoccupied with money problems, strikes or community relations. His underlying concern is for the institution itself--what it will be like for the next generation of students. "That's what you worry about--the profession," Giamatti explains, "how the institution can sustain young people...
Cohan added that the Lampoon had sent its cover photograph of Travolta from its 1978 summer issue, titled "Journal of the Mind," along with its invitation to the star of "Saturday Night Fever...
EMBALMED IN DUSTY, dank libraries, the social mind now holds an enormous cache of scholarship on political leaders--presidents, tyrants, revolutionaries--and followers--the rabble, the masses, the voting public. Historians endlessly debate the role of the great man, the masses and of fate in the unfolding of history. And usually the advocate defends one of these forces as the prime mover in history, or throws up his hands, frustrated by the epic proportions of the conflict...
...biography is illuminating because it pieces together the puzzling parts of a personality and a mind which has become cliched by fame. He was a great storyteller, they said. He was wonderful and crazy, they said. He wrote great autobiographies and fathered the hippie generation, they said. Clearly, Kerouac started something in 1957 when On the Road was published. But the changes in American mores and literature that Kerouac inspired are due to his literary and human genius, not to wild and crazy stories. Holmes said it best: "Most books that come out are contained. That is, people...
...York Yankees followed Monday's mind-blowing 5-4 victory over the Red Sox by pummeling Kansas City pitchers for 16 hits as they downed the Royals, 7-1, to take a 1-0 lead in the American League playoffs last night in Kansas City...