Word: minds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounded almost blankly uncomprehending. Said Chiang: "What Mr. Dulles is quoted as having said seems completely incompatible with our stand and does not sound like him. I cannot tell right away whether Mr. Dulles has made the remarks attributed to him for diplomatic reasons or with other purposes in mind." Chiang's Nationalist Chinese officials hurled bitter words at Americans-"betrayal," "doublecross...
...angels, many reasoned, then why not devils? Said Canon Evan Burrough of Oxford: "I have a profound belief in angels and therefore in demons or evil spirits. I believe that the majority of patients in our mental hospitals are really possessed by demons rather than suffering diseases of the mind...
...about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration, like that of Lolita's Humbert Humbert, involves young girls. As his boat approaches the island, he sees a girl of seven or so on the deck, and in his mind a hallucination forms in which the child becomes a sexual victim...
...Voyeur is a savage but pointless reaction against the psychological novel. Instead of probing the mind, the book nearly ignores it, and concentrates on the exact description of things. In accordance with Author Robbe-Grillet's belief that objects are more important than people. The island, a barroom, a bedroom, are etched into the reader's mind, while the story itself and the characters are allowed to go hang. Sooner or later, Robbe-Grillet or one of his disciples is bound to write a novel about a roomful of furniture; the affair between the armchair and the ottoman...
...never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth) maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play...