Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...concentration, he says, rests in his never thinking of the consequence of a match when playing. "Even if you're not playing well, you can overcome it by blocking everything out of your mind...
...they committed Chuck Green, he would wander Harlem streets, listening to the city, tapping. One night, from a dingy basement cafe came an odd, whining tune: "Got no maps on my taps." Green liked the song, liked singing it to himself. During the years in the hospital, when his mind was clearly out of synch with reality, his feet kept tapping in perfect rhythm to his song. His tap dancing, which had earned him his living on the outside, now became a form of therapy on the inside...
...that world--not educationally, politically, emotionally. Officials who think they can separate education from politics are at best deceiving themselves and at worst undermining the institution they claim to protect. A good education schools an individual to ask questions, to accept nothing as given, to challenge assumptions. An uncritical mind is an uneducated mind. In this sense education is political--an education that does not prepare students to think critically about the world they live in prepares them to accept it the way it is. An education that does not teach compassion, tolerance and sympathy encourages ruthlessness, unbridled competitiveness...
When Vienna was good it glittered, and when it turned bad it phosphoresced. This shimmer of decay, 80 years later, still lights up the contemporary terrain so pervasively that the city seems less a historical place than a state of mind. Psychoanalysis was born there, as well as atonal music, several schools of urban planning and modern Zionism. Vienna also spawned the brand of hooligan anti-Semitism that was admired, studied and perfected by an Austrian named Adolf Hitler. The powerful impulses sent out from turn-of-the-century Vienna have made it difficult to imagine the place...
...with You, The Royal Family (about the Barrymores), The Impossible Years and the long-running Broadway hit Gemini. A play like The Man Who Came to Dinner is very closely related to this genre. What links them all together is a zany brand of eccentricity, an inebriation of the mind and spirit rather than the body...