Word: brainchild
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...cheek? "At last!" declares the cover line. "A magazine for the woman who wasn't born yesterday." At last, indeed. After a tempestuous 2 1/2-year start-up that had Manhattan media circles sniffing with disdain, readers this week will see the first issue of Lear's. The brainchild and namesake of Frances Lear, former wife of Hollywood Producer Norman Lear, the new magazine is dedicated to the proposition that "women over 40 -- yesterday's 'mad housewives' -- are today's sanest, most creative, most interesting Americans...
Using the sky as a focal point for education is the brainchild of a retired Boston newscaster, Jack Borden. Ten years ago, while hiking, Borden gazed up and felt the jolt of an epiphany. "I had never really noticed the sky before," he recalls, "and its beauty, majesty and fragility just overpowered me." Expose children to this great expanse, he reasoned, and you have a thematic catalyst that spans the three Rs, encompasses the arts and sciences and engages the mind in a voyage of self-discovery. Borden, now 59, decided to take his inspiration to local schools...
...cost of sending a team of selected rugby players from New England colleges on a tour of Australia and New Zealand in June of 1988. The tour--the brainchild of Kingston--is sponsored by the New England Rugby Federation Union (N.E.R.F.U.) and has 30 representatives from 14 colleges in New England...
...puzzle party was the brainchild of Jack Gray, a teaching fellow for VES 176, "Synergetics," a course on concepts in three-dimensional forms. "I heard through people on the West Coast that they had puzzle parties out there," says Gray. "So I thought, `Gee, wouldn't it be fun if we had one here...
...intrepid in expressing them, she quickly established herself as one of the most implacable foes of the New Deal and especially of any and all appeasement of the Soviet Union. When Vice President Henry Wallace suggested a postwar policy of opening the skies to every plane, Luce dubbed his brainchild "globaloney." As for F.D.R., she said, he had "lied us into a war into which he should have led us." Small wonder, then, that hers was one of the most hotly contested seats in the country when she sought, and won, re- election...