Word: concept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration on how the U.S. foreign-aid program ought to be modified. Nearly everybody is agreed that the U.S. has to get out from under its lonely foreign-aid load (estimated 1959 spending: $5.5 billion) in one way or another. The President backs Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's concept that the U.S. ought to join with prospering Western allies to create a pool of foreign-aid capital clearly identified with free nations. He has approved Anderson's plan for a new International Development Association (IDA), capitalized with a joint $1 billion, which will get its first public airing...
...long been an unfashionable word in most analytic circles, but last week the American Psychological Association offered 7,000 members (jammed into Cincinnati for its annual convention) a soul-searching symposium entitled "The Role of the Concept of Sin in Psychotherapy.'' Upshot: the idea of sin, at least for use .in treating the sick psyche, is making a comeback...
...gratifying to note that one of the important matters which your convention will consider is the concept of world peace through law. Peace cannot prevail until men and nations recognize that their conduct must be governed by respect for and observance...
...Eisenhower were just beginning to catch up with. He was not, in fact, the New Ike or even the New Old Ike, just the same-Ike. It was that same Ike who last week replied to a press conference question asking whether he had a "new concept of the presidency" or whether he was "just feeling better?" Replied the President: "Perfectly simple. When you have a situation that has gone on, as we have had this cold war, since 1945 . . . there must be no gun unfired and no individual effort spared." To do the job under such circumstances, said...
...kick, he is just plain riotous. He has but to walk across the stage to get a laugh. The characterization is similar to one he used as Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford last summer; but since he has considerably more to say as Smee, the concept is considerably enlarged. The shaky voice, the doddering walk, the tongue whipping from cheek to cheek--all contribute to definitive Smee. It is impossible to conceive of any one extracting more humor from this role...