Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because the bombing of the gunboat Panay has made the U. S. more receptive to the idea of a bigger Navy and because a Naval building program would help depressed business, Washington was not surprised when Franklin Roosevelt wrote to Chairman Edward Taylor of the House Appropriations Committee...
...more than a year the idea of a World Association of Science-embracing at least France, Britain, the U. S. and other democracies-has been in the air. It was suggested at the Harvard Tercentenary celebration by Professor Etienne Gilson of France. A group of newspaper reporters at Cambridge, sensing a good story, promoted an unofficial symposium of celebrities who declared themselves in favor of the plan. Official encouragement came from Britain. Newspaper editorials on the subject were reprinted in science journals. Last week at Indianapolis the A. A. A. S. council officially approved the plan for some...
...pleasantness was not the idea. The mists & veils of Denishawn soon gave way to High Priestess Martha Graham's surrealistic fence-act. Frontier, and to stylized swaying and leaping by dead-pan Grahamite assistants. Favored by streamlined technique and by an early position on an anti-climactic program, mask-faced Graham's parsimonious convolutions drew bravos. So did the following Theatre Piece, in which Pantomimist Charles Weidman skittered in black tights while Doris Humphrey caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol...
Harvard's system concentration eliminates the "department store" of some universities. But at the same time this system presents the danger of concentration for concentration's sake; in time the presence of too many students in the social sciences may subvert Harvard's current idea of education to that of a vocational school. The theory of education here transcends the social sciences; in doing so, it does bring students here to be educated, and, contrary to Mr. Foerster, to a certain indefinable extent every student who graduates is educated...
...wanted to protect the lives and property of all his relatives. He suggested in his bland, almost unctuous way that the Vagabond be provided with an accident insurance policy; thus, when he got hurt or killed, there would be money to cover the situation. It was a brilliant idea, worthy of the high ideals of material civilization; the family embraced it quickly, and the Vagabond was bundled off to be examined by a doctor. It was a principle of the insurance company that an individual be sound in body before he receive a policy...