Word: minds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That prayer was not answered last week as the current theatrical bibliomania engulfed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. If First Impressions resembles any fair lady, it is Jenny, the girl who could not make up her mind. The show wavers between Austen, Burrows and music-hall burlesque, and only the elegant Regency settings and costumes of Peter Larkin and Alvin Colt seem serenely self-assured...
...stay with them long. He had ideas about the biggest problem in applied physics-how to generate controlled fusion power-and Brookhaven had no such program. In 1956 he took his scheme for a fusion reactor to the University of California, which had become acquainted with his yeasty mind eight years before...
Opinion here on Barbara Ward has ranged from the salutation of her 1957 honorary degree: "A charming lady whose respected voice and clear mind call the West to freedom through faith," to the more terse judgement from a younger faculty member: "She's vastly overrated...
...Spike" Canham had a hint of what might happen. A member of the chamber's board of directors for the past 5½ years, he had been asked in January whether he would accept a nomination for the post. Canham went back to Boston, searched his own mind, and huddled with colleagues for several days to determine whether accepting would compromise his integrity as an editor. He decided that it would not, gave the green light...
...York newspaper, came to feel that he was being stretched upon the cross of the world's suffering. He goes insane and is murdered by one of the suffering souls he is trying to save. And what does it all mean? That nobody in his right mind can love his neighbor...