Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conquering is exactly what Pelle has in mind. Though he may not have grand visions of political conquest or public grandeur, he does aspire to make his own decisions and determine his own way of life. With the ill-fated Lasse, this seems almost impossible...
When one thinks of confusing things, visions of driving through the downtown streets of Boston come to mind...
...think [about] how fast the mind can move us, the way the story is a span of light across space," says Billy Bathgate, the 15-year-old gangster apprentice who is the title character of E.L. Doctorow's newest work. And appropriately for a novel that mellifluously combines historical fact and invention, Billy Bathgate is itself a transporting medium...
...point, annoyed teammates actually waved him out of the pivot. "I wasn't just window dressing," he says, "but I was headed that way. Your mind is what makes everything else work. Mine was on other years. But I think I've turned it up a notch in the past few games...
Wurman's prescriptions are sound enough: be a good listener, be a contrarian, avoid gratuitous precision, avoid cliches. He also makes some more or less fresh points: that all information is inherently selective and subjective, and that the mind is not an ultra-complicated computer but a place full of unprogrammable and meaningful lapses, quirks and non sequiturs. Yet as he approvingly predicts the proliferation of directories of directories and a new Secretary of Understanding in the Cabinet, Wurman seems to be suffering from Information Giddiness...