Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This martial interruption was the idea of Australia's Lieut. General H.C.H. Robertson, British Commonwealth occupation commander in Japan. Like many a Commonwealth occupation official, Robertson feels that U.S. policy in Japan has too much poetry, not enough punch. As commander of the Hiroshima area at the ceremony, Robertson had a rare chance to show the Japanese (and the Americans) what he meant...
Political Bends. The new Israelis walked with a confident swagger along beach front at Tel Aviv. They talked confidently-indeed, stridently-of a state of ten million, not necessarily confined to the present boundaries of Israel. It was a bad joke, and also a sober observation, that the idea of Drang nach Osten lived in the new nation of Hitler's victims. As they looked around them at a disorganized and unproductive Arab world, Israelis showed some of the reactions of the prewar Germans looking around a disorganized and unproductive Europe...
More Glamor. To many an old-school Latin teacher, the idea was heresy. Vergil, they said, was much too difficult, too full of poet's irregularities. Besides, boys at least, liked to read about wars. Rubbish, said Miss Geweke. There was adventure and glamor in the Aeneid ("It contains an exciting love affair"). It was a masterpiece, "the most balanced work in all Latin literature." And it was certainly no harder than Caesar, with his long, closely knit sentences, his use of subjunctives, indirect discourse and the historical present. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South...
...show was the result of a personal crusade by wiry little Robert Saudek, 37, ABC's director of public affairs programs. He got the idea last summer, wrestled it out first with himself, then with other network brains, finally with the writer. After weeks of interviewing ("I wanted someone who knew the inner workings of the Communist Party-I didn't want him to write from textbooks"), Saudek chose 34-year-old Morton Wishengrad to do the script. Wishengrad is a radio writer who also happened to be an anti-Communist veteran of David Dubinsky's successful...
...trip had been the idea of an 18-year-old French boy named Jean-Marie LePargneur. He, like his fellow tourists, had spent a year at a U.S. school on an American Field Service scholarship. But he thought he ought to see more of the U.S. than just the school he went to in Beaver Dam, Wis. So did the A.F.S., but it didn't know where the money would come from. Jean-Marie replied, "I feel that anything is possible in the United States." Local civic groups put the students up, and Greyhound lent a bus; the entire...