Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the committee for confirmation as a $15,000-a-year member of AEC. "These men," said Dr. Smyth, "have no access to secret material." He thought that the best potential scientists had "an inquisitive turn of mind" and were "apt to be politically naive." He hoped that the "idea will not get abroad that the only people who can get AEC fellowships are complete conformists...
...G.B.S.'s idea. "As you have done Shakespeare and Shaw," he told Biographer Hesketh Pearson, "are you not bound to do Dickens? Anybody but Dickens will be a comedown after Shakespeare and G.B.S." Pearson, who is Britain's most fecund literary biographer* and a Dickens fan to boot, heartily agreed; and although his Dickens reveals more about the man and his life than about the artist and his novels, it is nonetheless the best-balanced, most complete biography to date...
...completely dominated. Kate bore him ten children and he adored them all, but he gave her small thanks. "My wife," he wrote resentfully to a friend, "is quite well again, after favoring me (I think I could have dispensed with the compliment) with No. 10 . . . I have some idea ... of interceding with the Bishop of London to have a little service in St. Paul's beseeching that I may be considered to have done enough towards my country's population...
...discreet but troubling shot of Communist propaganda. In a rush of guilt, he concludes that the U.S. is on the wrong side, that the enemies of Chiang Kai-shek ("It is not so important whether we are Communists or not") are the hope of China. He flirts with the idea of helping them, but he is too confused to make up his mind. Even his adventures with a refugee Russian girl and with his boss's wife have a nightmare quality of distracted escape. In the end he does escape, from China and from himself, heads back...
...idea has been growing in education. It is to consider students' opinions on the quality of their instructors. Michigan University has adopted a plan to get these opinions, as has the Harvard Chemistry Department...