Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repeated to Carter his view stated to TIME that the U.S. should not expect much from SALT. According to a White House aide, Teng told Carter that "SALT cannot supplant the need for decisive action in other ways." He did not spell out what other ways he had in mind. On Capitol Hill, Teng's warning about SALT may well have caused a couple of Senators to change their votes, lessening the Administration's chances of getting a treaty ratified...
...popular tax cut was not the only thing on Thelma's mind. As she well knew, her desire to shake things up while the boss is away had made her a political heroine. She is now one of the favorites in this year's race to succeed Carroll, who is ineligible to succeed himself. If she survives the May primary and wins in November, one thing is likely: Thelma Stovall will be a woman Governor who knows that her place is in the mansion...
Bonnie Costello, assistant professor of English at Boston University said yesterday, she plans to teach a freshman seminar in landscape and the mind, which would study "the interaction of imagination and reality in modern poetry...
...only thing wrong with this book of delights is its title, taken from T.S. Eliot's Gerontion: "Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." Despite the calendar, which says he is 84, Gerald Brenan has a luminous mind and an ageless talent. His collage of quotes, aphorisms and observations, in the style of Cyril Connolly's short masterpiece, The Unquiet Grave, deserves a permanent place on the night table. Opened at random, it will provide a refreshment, and occasionally a shock, on nearly every page. Brenan can sometimes be wrongheaded, but he is never dull...
That absolute expanse might be difficult, even unbearable, to contemplate, like an infinite snow field of time, but the conception at least carried with it the serenity of the eternal. In recent decades, however, the Steady State model of the universe has yielded in the scientific mind to an even more difficult idea, full of cosmic violence. Most astronomers now accept the theory that the universe had an instant of creation, that it came to be in a vast fireball explosion 15 or 20 billion years ago. The shrapnel created by that explosion is still flying outward from the focus...