Word: mind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nobel-prizewinning scientist's dead daughter materializes to make him stop his work. Based on a novel by Paul Gallico, Daughter of the Mind stars Ray Milland, Gene Tierney and Don Murray...
...ROUGHSHOD book, and it probably won't get to you much unless the back of your mind happens to resemble Reed's. He's having a good time taking a look at the same things CBS documentaries look at, without the pain of having to take it seriously. You'll find your own way of dealing with the book, but try not to think too hard about what he's got to say; enjoy the images he puts you on to, and the pictures that get conjured up in your head. You'll like it a lot more that...
...community ( Beyond the Melting Pot ). Perhaps Moynihan could soft-pedal his policy as "the creation of black suburbs." The creation of black suburbs, though, has been going on for many years; to some extent, it has aggravated the social disorientation of the blacks left behind. Moynihan actually has in mind a federally financed migration out of the ghetto. But to where- the white suburbs, the rural hinterlands, the sea? Whatever its messianic possibilities, the details of the migration remain unclear...
achieves an emotional consummation that just cannot be improved. Like the Lincoln Continental, these revelations-of-mind are a polished but exhausted perfection. Where can one go from here except to the distressing extreme of Anne Sexton writing "In Celebration of My Uterus?" The poetry of discovery and sincerity becomes a simplistic, gratuitous poetry of exposure, and that sacred "space" vanishes at the boundaries of private experience...
...hours after the reading, I was filled with it. I could hardly talk to my friends about Galway Kinnell's poetry, but having the music of it in my mind. I agreed to write about it. I kept the image of him alone and healthy reading his own poetry, astonishing songs of his own mind and making. Feeling less effete than I have in a long time. I walked into the Advocate sanctum after the meeting had ended and everyone had departed, traces of the carnage of Saturday night's Brautigan reception still heavy in the air. Fled for awhile...