Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most movies depend on some realistic approach to achieve their end: slavishly typical settings, naturalism unadulterated, or at least superficially normal situations. When a film can suspend all realism, lose itself in time and place and idea, and still hold the convictions of its audience, it has chalked up the double accomplishment of a successful movie and an artistic ground-breaker...
...greatest potential conflict...An expanding economy, increased productivity, and widespread and full distribution of goods are essential if we are to raise the real income of our people to levels hitherto undreamed . . . Communism was not conceived as an answer to this problem. Communism is essentially a political idea, not a scientific blueprint for a machine...
...simple suggestion that can be acted on with neither delay nor trouble. To most Americans, "food" is a word that carries little meaning, in these times compared with such words as "liberty" and "peace," or "communism" and "democracy." But in much of the rest of the world, the idea of "let's eat" is the dominant thought in the mind of every human being. When a man's food consumption averages 1,150 calories daily, he is not likely to be a communist or a democrat or an advocate of free speech. He is likely to be nothing...
...Frazer and Gibbon, Historian Toynbee replies: the Graeco-Roman civilization was not destroyed by Christianity but "decayed from inherent defects of its own." He also rejects the idea that religions act as bridges between civilizations. He sees it as just the reverse...
...Natural Science course, entitled "Organic Evolution," will be conducted by Alfred S. Romer, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology. In the Humanities, courses in "Art in Man's Environment" and "The Idea of Progress in Western Literature and Thought" will compensate for the omission of Humanities 12a next fall...