Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This isn't charity," Farmer said last night, "but rather an attempt to give these men an equal footing in the U.S. bidding market for these jobs." He added that the idea was based partly on the hope that they can "round out American universities...
Somewhere in one of West Point's official poop-sheets there are a few lucid paragraphs about the purposes of athletics. The gist of the idea is that it develops leadership and character, and building these two features is the Academy's raison d'etre...
...long. It is always calling time on its own fun to try something else. Furthermore, in illustrating the decline of domestic life, it goes in for some pretty childish and cheesy spoofing. The interpolated vaudeville show is not on the whole a very good show or a very good idea. It does not seem quite consistent that Love Life -which so deplores the modern spirit of commercialism and greed-should itself be the stage equivalent of a double feature...
...skill it deserves. Scene by scene, and shot by shot, the picture is almost wholly credible and pleasing. It is curious that such good moviemaking does not add up to more. One trouble may be that more talent and solemn care have gone into the show than the basic idea is worth. Also, loving attention to detail may have deprived the picture as a whole of form, drive and pace. It is still superior to the run of movies, which offer nothing much worth looking at and nothing much worth thinking about...
...only complaint came from Fritz Kuhn, leader of the rambunctious German-American Bund. Kuhn charged that the man who mid-wived the new group, Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, was engaged in unfair persecution of the Bund. Indeed, Dickstein had been attacking the Bund furiously. It was his idea that a small body of Representatives peering into "un-American activities" would scorch and harry Nazi and Fascist propagandists in the United States, and if Dickstein had been appointed chairman, the American public would doubtless have been displayed of one of the wildest, weirdest extravagant side shows since the Tennessee...