Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone except the abnormally saintly or submissive possesses the retaliatory instinct. It lurks like a small black gland at the base of the brain, in the mind's nonreasoning regions. When a person's elemental sense of justice is offended, the retributive instinct flares and hops in outrage; it gesticulates like Mussolini; it demands satisfaction. The urge is deep and primitive. Some cannibals on Pacific islands used to eat convicted murderers for dinner-a practice that appeased both their hunger for food and their thirst for justice...
...with itself and punish a crime as it promised it would. Author C.S. Lewis has pointed out the totalitarian possibilities in treating criminals as sick people who need to be cured: "If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as crime; and compulsorily cured." The KGB understands the logic...
...mind," says Willie, "I was seeling a movie unfold." Sure enough, Universal Pictures is interested in making a film based on the album. Willie has formed a production company to handle the deal. A canny businessman beneath his roistering exterior, he usually produces his own albums, has several real estate holdings in Texas and is majority owner of a record label and publishing company...
...charming Rue McClanahan, late of Lear's Maude, stars as a fey woman who, in the Depression, hires an entire family out of the want ads. Why? Never mind. Suffice it to say that there are a lot of F.D.R. and Anna May Wong jokes. Among the unruly supporting players, Dabney Coleman is refreshingly laid back as the heroine's hired fella, but the gifted Jack Gilford is squandered as a crochety blind grandpa. Someone should put Apple Pie back in the oven. - Frank Rich
...project this year will involve collaboration between the Nieman Foundation and the Kennedy School Institute of Politics. "This has been in the works for over a year, but it is still very unclear precisely what the Kennedy School has in mind," Thomson said...