Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond that. Teller raises serious doubts about the whole concept of inspection to enforce disarmament agreements. Pointing out that "the launching of a massive attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles requires very little visible preparation," he warns: "Modern war-making potential depends to an increasing extent on highly specialized weapons. Some of the most essential of these weapons can be hidden with relative ease. Nuclear explosives and long-range rockets are two outstanding examples. Thus surveillance becomes more and more difficult. In addition, scientific and technical developments have produced and will produce unexpected types of weapons. How shall one check whether...
...deliver the prestigious Wright Brothers Lecture. For Speaker H. Julian Allen of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the honor was well timed. That morning Avco Manufacturing Corp. announced that it had devised a blunt-nose cone for the Air Force ICBM Titan. Originator of the blunt-nose concept: Dr. "Harvey" Allen, one of the most brilliant and colorful of the nation's flight scientists...
...second place, Professor Harris is assuming that undergraduates should pay the salaries of their professors. This concept is usually formulated by mentioning the "subsidy" given undergraduate education from endowment. Now it would be perfectly reasonable to assume that tuition should pay the expenses of Harvard College if the full facilities of the College were dedicated to educating undergraduates. But they...
...fashioned format of 48-piece orchestra and opera singer in a standard, semiclassical repertory, angry letters pour in. Three-and-a-half years ago, when viewers and listeners* heard that after more than 25 years NBC would have to evict Voice to allow for the modern, ratings-shaped concept of mass over class, Firestone fans became as loud as they had been loyal. Without missing a note, Voice moved over to ABC, and has rolled along placidly there ever since. The show still opens with the late Idabelle Firestone's If I Could Tell You ("of my devotion...
Collector Guggenheim's vast private museum embraces, as British Critic Sir Herbert Read once put it, "all the major movements which since about 1910 have transformed the very concept of art." Items: Marcel Duchamp's Lonely Boy on Train, from the same period as his famed Nude Descending a Staircase; examples of the 1913 Moscow Suprematist movement by Founder Malevitch and Follower Lissitzky; key works by Mondrian, Kandinsky, Braque, Picasso and Pollock. So famous is her collection that Venice's international Biennale once gave her a pavilion all to herself. Says Peggy: "It was wonderful...