Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis ends badly and any of the hostages are harmed, however, the U.S. will face a far more serious problem. Though the Administration has ruled out military intervention during the current impasse (there were naval exercises in the Persian Gulf last week, however), it might change its mind in the event of American casualties at the embassy. The Pentagon has advised that air raids, launched from carriers, could put the Iranian oilfields out of action for six months with a minimum of civilian injuries, but there has been no suggestion from any quarter that this would be a good course...
...sudden shift is less a change of heart or mind in many cases than an anticipation of the economic boom it is hoped will come with peace and legality. There was a glimpse of the future when the Thatcher government last week allowed some of the sanctions to lapse; the remainder will almost certainly be lifted after the British Governor arrives in Salisbury. President Carter, meanwhile, declined to end U.S. sanctions immediately but broadly hinted that he would do so as soon as the Lancaster House Conference reaches a successful conclusion...
...millions of educated young people in China who have thus far only dared to dream or to whisper of their desires for freedom. Many of these educated youths seem to believe that for China to become a truly modern country with what Chairman Hua Guofeng has called "liveliness of mind," democratic rights are not a luxury but a necessity. In one of its issues, the April Fifth Forum asked: "Why have Chinese in China demonstrated so few accomplishments while they win Nobel Prizes once they go abroad?" The Forum's answer: "The development of science requires a definite kind...
...Being by Flannery O'Connor (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979). Letters of one of America's finest writers, who died in 1964, at age 39; the text is firm about Roman Catholicism, refreshingly short on self-pity about the disease that crippled her-and characteristically precise of mind and heart...
...attempt to go beyond the usual filmed operatic performances or made-for-TV studio productions. Joseph Losey (The Servant, The Go-Between) takes his cast of international singing stars out on location to the waterways of Venice and to some stunning Palladian villas in the countryside around Vicenza. Never mind that Ingmar Bergman's 1975 version of Mozart's The Magic Flute showed what enchanting results a modest, studio-bound production could achieve. Never mind, too, that the locale of the Don Juan legend and the setting of Mozart's opera is not Italy but Spain...