Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wojnowski, Poland's consul in Milan, Italy, was a bit subtler about it but he had the same general idea. A studious, courteous, bespectacled book collector, he had never been very happy in his consulate. Last summer, after a trip home, he cut out meat, ate only tea and toast for supper and gave up buying books. Staffers wondered why he was saving his pennies. Last week they found...
Like a man hopefully shooting arrows into the empty air, the wartime "Voice of America" beamed 2,500 broadcasts a week into the heart of Europe and Asia. Nobody knew, or could prove, whether it did any good or not. But the idea was to encourage resistance forces and combat Axis propaganda. When the war ended, the "Voice" died to a whisper. It was cut down by a budget-minded Congress to a scanty $8,000,000 a year (less than the U.S. spent last year on its wildlife care), and most of its overseas programs were farmed...
...foreword to his film, "The Eternal Return," the French writer Jean Cocteau explains that the title is borrowed from Nietzsche, and that it means great legends of the past may re-occur without their participants being aware of it. with this interesting idea in mind, M. Cocteau has chosen to present the Tristan-Iseult legend in contemporary settings and in something of the same grand-manner that was to be so successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily...
These two projects will probably be adopted by other schools in the NSA system. Work has already begun on the Tri-Nations tour idea...
Both a Register and a Red Book? For the past nine months the Student Council has been toying with the idea of doing away with the ever present, if often belated Freshman Red Book. Now that the less complicated Register, with names and numbers and pictures of all newcomers, has come back on the scene, some Council members have questioned the need of the other, larger animal...