Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoys life much more when Congress is not around. If that was the case, here was another occasion on which Mr. Roosevelt had not seen fit to take his Majority Leader into his confidence. For among the first to rise in surprised opposition to Mr. Bankhead's idea was plodding Leader Barkley...
Because its majority is divided and because he had no new idea to spring, Franklin Roosevelt signalized this session of Congress by not demanding of it some major program to improve society. His "appeasement" of Business for recovery, now a bad joke, was to have been an executive job done by Harry Hopkins, whose performance was crippled by intestinal flu. In fighting with Congress for larger Relief appropriations than it was willing to give, the President has slowed up other legislation. And though the President's critics are doubtless unjust when they say that he has been plugging foreign...
...Omaha in 1935) and had won Great Britain's coveted Ascot Gold Cup last year with Flares, a son of Gallant Fox. But Turfman Woodward, a serious student of blood lines, took special pride in his long-legged Johnstown, whom railbirds nicknamed "Big John." It was his idea to breed his fleet-footed Jamestown with La France, a beautiful little mare who, because of a broken hip, never could race. Johnstown was their foal and Owner Woodward had followed the colt's career as though he were an only child...
...tendencies are strong and realistic. External aspects are emphasized in a way which does not allow for an after-reverberation in the mind of the audience of the theme which the artist is trying to present. The artist, in attempting to express himself in such a fashion that his idea will be made clear to the onlooker, throws his whole subjective self into his creation with the result that not a great deal is left to the imagination of the spectator. Most great artists have left a slight gap between themselves and those who are receiving their paintings, thereby allowing...
...years, this reviewer has been getting in trouble with certain classical acquaintances because he insisted that the average trumpet man in a symphony orchestra plays without feeling, without life, concentrating on getting a nice, pure classical tone--which doesn't convey the slightest bit of emotion or feeling. Same idea as boiled and ordinary water. One may be a little more impure, but it certainly is more palatable...