Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience of about 500 heard MacLeish attack the idea "poets never make anything happen." Poetry, he said, is a means that shows an individual himself. The earth today is troubled, MacLeish commented, by the "plight of the individual in an institutionalized world...
Lowell has solved its common room problem by placing a movable set in the Coolidge Room opposite the Large Common Room. Of the two Houses now weighing the idea of television, Leverett is planning a special basement room, while Dunster--loss advanced in the project--asked its residents last month for suggestions as to where to place the set if bought...
Dunster and Leverett, in recent television-versus-washing machine polls, both favored television. But Dunster, with a bulging House treasury, may also try out a washing machine. If it does so, it will take over Adams' role as the one-House experimenter. Adams was forced to abandon the idea last spring when its committee decided it would be too difficult to pay back a necessary $600 loan from the Student Council...
...Conant, still holding a bouquet to ward off unknowing handshakers, was discussing the impracticality of the President's House, as a home. "It was built by President Lowell whose idea of something grand was that spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in a full skirt and a train, but it seems as if the staircase came first and the house as an after-thought." Someone asked her if she had occasion to sweep down with a train much, and she laughed and said not much. "Of course, this place is practical when...
Besides his arranging duties, Anderson is now working on a piano concerto for next spring. "I don't know how it will turn out, but when I get an idea, I try to follow it through. I'm still feeling my way along as far as composing is concerned," he explains...