Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...During a five-minute meeting, Carter urged Hardin to report any future contacts with Vesco's emissaries to the Justice Department and scrawled a message to Attorney General Bell?the same note that surfaced last week. Then, so the White House says, the President pushed the matter from his mind. What happened to the note next is unclear. Bell says he never received it. Neither Lee nor any other Vesco representative ever called on Bell...
...attacked from the outset because she was considered "soft" on crime and the death penalty, and because she had no prior experience as a judge. (Neither did Felix Frankfurter or Earl Warren before they sat on the U.S. Supreme Court, her defenders pointed out.) "She has a very clear mind, a good heart and strong administrative legal skills," said Governor Jerry Brown when he elevated Bird to the court from her prior post as head of the state's agriculture and services agency. "She is vindictive, snaps back and is autocratic as she can be," charges conservative State Senator Hubert...
BLOW YOUR MIND! READ A BOOK, trumpets the advertisement. TAKE A CLASS YOU CAN GET YOUR TEETH INTO, heralds a notice listing courses in art history. WANT TO LEARN RUSSIAN BUT THINK IT'S TOO HARD? wheedles a bold message. TRY RUSSIAN...
...Afraid of Virginia WooIf? Not Edward Albee, who has directed it and other plays he has written. "Nobody can get as much into the mind of the author as the playwright himself," says Albee, 50. For his latest project, he has directed a troupe of six actors who are presenting eight of his one-act plays, including The Zoo Story and The American Dream, on a 35-week tour of U.S. and Canadian universities. For parts of the tour Albee plans to be on hand. But actors, beware. The director has a ready brush-off. "When there is a question...
...assumed identities so convincing, that splendid effects roll by almost unnoticed. A rabbit comes into view, "trembling at being alive." A girl looks at a sunset: "The sky was enjoying herself after the boredom of being blue all day." Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the images in Haye's mind shift from sight to sound: "Voices had become his great interest, voices that surrounded him, that came and went, that slipped from tone to tone, that hid to give away in hiding...