Word: brainstorm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although concern for national appearances may sound somewhat callous in light of the more obvious moral shortcomings of the segregationists' plan, it is still hard to ignore the effect that publicity of this development will have abroad. Eventually, however, the Southern Whites will suffer most from this new extremist brainstorm. They are postponing any kind of real solution to problems that will become more and more severe and which they will finally have to face squarely...
...Crimson is developing into a solid ball team. Until someone comes up with a brainstorm at the Med School (or the Admissions Office) the height problem will remain. But the other problems show signs of eventual solution, and that could cause some of the teams at the top of the league, including representatives of a small liberal arts school in New Haven, a few anxious moments...
...best, the British press is the Western world's most literary. At its worst, it is the most salacious. Either way, come brainstorm or bosom, it is the biggest, with seven London dailies boasting circulations of more than 1,000,000 (as against only one, the New York Daily News, in the U.S.). Indeed, as Britons themselves have recently come to realize, their press may be growing to death...
...coach's brainstorm is in many ways an ingenious one, since it requires a small amount of mobility from what is essentially a slow-footed squad, and since it makes maximum use of the team's strong corps of front-court...
...this idea first hit me," said Steve ("the thinking man's comic") Allen, "I got that certain instinctive chill. The hair on the back of my neck almost stood up. The idea was that good." Allen's brainstorm: a 19-minute "Meeting of the Minds" inserted in his hour-long TV variety show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker...