Yet somehow, more than any of the movies that tried to address the turbulent social upheavals of the 60's more directly, "The Graduate" is the movie that many who actually lived through that time, including Mr. Howard, feel most closely captured the mind-set of the era.
For one night, she captured the minds and, more important, the hearts of Americans from sea to shining sea.
He is not one of those abolish-the-Fed, tax-cuts-pay-for-themselves charlatans who seem to have captured the minds of so many Republicans.
Well before technology made these achievements possible, however, space exploration had already captured the minds of many people, not only aircraft pilots and scientists but also writers and artists.
"It's one of great ideas and one that takes America to its greatest potential … and early on that message really captured the minds and the hearts of feeling people".
It has captured the minds of scholars in psychology and many domain-specific studies of reasoning and problem solving.
Moshi Monsters is a virtual pet and social networking game which has captured the minds - and pocket money - of children around the world.
The photo sharing social network, recently purchased by Facebook for $1 billion, captured the minds of Yin and 40 million others like her.
The bishops and high priests in the environment movement and in government bureaucracies have filled millions of pages of scripture, regulation and reports, but they have not captured the minds of the people.
It was this progressive, optimistic account of the world that captured the minds and hearts of mid-19th century Europe and America (including that of Marx, needless to say).
"Scarcity captures the mind," explain Mullainathan and Shafir.
