Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea of the 23 most influential people in the U.S. was reported by René de Chambrun, who published in This Week a list the President had jotted down for him in 1940. Next-door neighbors on the list: Robert Taft and Henry Wallace. Among the missing: Harry Truman. Final name on the list: Mrs. F.D.R...
...catch: present phonographs would need a new attachment to play records at the new speed as well as the old. Philco and Columbia were both ready to provide it-for $29.95. In case the idea doesn't catch on, Columbia will still turn out standard records...
...Recks not his own rede becomes Minds not his own creed. In all, there are 25 such changes. Some are debatable, but the principle is sound. It is equally sound, of course, to cut the text. There are purists who will yell bloody murder at the very idea that Shakespeare can possibly be "improved" on in any way at all. Nonetheless, Olivier has treated him to some shrewd editing...
...Bainton attributes the rise of romantic love to reaction against the Church's austerity. The "cult of adultery," with its emphasis on courtship, began during the Renaissance to romanticize the institution of marriage itself. According to Dr. Bainton, the modern idea of falling in love before marriage often has "the unhappy and unnecessary corollary that if romantic attachment wanes marriage should be terminated...
...play for high-school amateurs, and everybody except Miss Allyson, who would probably put her whole heart into stuff even thinner, plays it in that slothful spirit. But the picture is good enough to pass an idle hour. It ambles from one easy, half-developed comic idea to another, with few serious dead spots between. Typical gags: Johnson and his publisher (Hume Cronyn) fouled up in an Indian war at the orphanage; the leapings and snatchings of respectable people at a small-town wedding, tormented by the ants which Butch has turned loose...