Word: minding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been a one-man industry ever since. The less said about Berman's Schumann the better: he simply does not feel the music. No problems with the Rachmaninoff. Here is the fabled Berman technique operating with all its power, speed and subtlety and calling to mind classic interpretations by Horowitz and, of course, the composer himself. The final album, Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), ought to stand by itself for years. It is a wondrously assorted anthology of piano pieces, many of which were conceived during four years of wandering through Switzerland and Italy...
...birds, flowers and grasses she saw on her walks. The result, never before published, was a delicately assembled chronicle of a year in the Midlands that included the diarist's favorite poems and aphorisms. It is published here in a fine facsimile edition that pleases the mind...
...indeed have more than one thing in mind...
...brilliant and dedicated academics in three or four sentences. Listening to Toffler is like a breath of fresh air. Having never been rigorously inculcated with the thoughts of dozens of dead thinkers and their often obsolete thoughts, Toffler discards dogma and illustrates the remarkable capacities of an unleashed mind...
...industrial machine, even if he were well-greased. Toffler attributes modern man's problems to natural difficulties in adapting to a highly modernized world far different from the primitive, less-frenetic world that man evolved in. "Just as the body cracks under the strain of environmental overstimulation, the mind and its decision processes behave erratically when overloaded," Toffler claims. In his book, Future Shock. Toffler goes...