Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while Lamar couldn't yet name any stars, he was pleased with the squad as a whole. "We'll field a strong team next week against Andover, but I have no idea...
...January 1947, Nelson Rockefeller had set up the International Basic Economy Corp. to carry out the idea that good can be done at a profit by helping Latin American countries increase their food output. In Venezuela, some of his model farms were already about to show a profit. But there, the government and the oil companies had put up part of the capital, and smoothed the way. In Brazil it was different...
Frank Parker refused to consider the idea, even privately. Parker was 32, Billy Talbert 30 and Gardnar Mulloy 33-and they had all been playing the tennis circuit for years & years-but they were not oldtimers yet. Said Frank: "I don't let myself think that...
Sudden Sweat in Boston. Seldom has the gullibility and wishful thinking of pinkish academic intellectuals been so perfectly exposed as in this little book. The months Matthiessen spent in Prague were months when the Czech Communists were openly preparing for their seizure of power. Yet Matthiessen derided the idea that the Czech people faced a "loss of Czech freedom." Several months later, when he was back at Harvard and events in Czechoslovakia forced him to reconsider, he added a footnote to his book blaming the U.S. press for helping to bring on "such pressures from the Communists...
...Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives the dispossessed their only hope...