Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME was trying to prove in pictures as well as words that important, "pig iron" news could be made graphic. A year later TIME ran two pages from a Fox Movietone reel of the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. Out of these experiments grew the idea of LIFE...
...giveaways." But the skyrocketing Hooperatings of Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) and Miss Hush (Martha Graham) changed his thinking. After the Walking Man, he might try a "Walking Lady, a Baby Hush, or a Burping Baby." The only trouble is "those other quiz shows that glommed on to the idea." If the rivals don't stop, they may spoil the whole thing...
Under the bland influence of the idea of progress, man, supposing himself more & more to be the measure of all things, achieved a singularly easy conscience and an almost hermetically smug optimism. The idea that man is sinful and needs redemption was subtly changed into the idea that man is by nature good and hence capable of indefinite perfectibility. This perfectibility is being achieved through technology, science, politics, social reform, education. Man is essentially good, says 20th Century liberalism, because he is rational, and his rationality is (if the speaker happens to be a liberal Protestant) divine...
...20th Century faces. The more production multiplies, the more scarcities become endemic. The faster science gains on disease (which, ultimately, seems always to elude it), the more the human race dies at the hands of living men. Men have never been so educated, but wisdom, even as an idea, has conspicuously vanished from the world...
Reinhold Niebuhr's new orthodoxy is the oldtime religion put through the intellectual wringer. It is a re-examination of orthodoxy for an age dominated by such trends as rationalism, liberalism, Marxism, fascism, idealism and the idea of progress...