Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Hersholt is now in the East conferring with the Columbia University officials who annually award the Pulitzer prizes, with the idea of having the cinema included. This would possibly be an improvement, but it should be remembered that the Pulitzer prizes are awarded to works that "best present the wholesome atmosphere of American Life, (the capitals are Mr. Pulitzer's), and the highest standards of American manners and mankind...
...house to get rid of the rats'. . . We regret deeply that some of our fellow citizens, our friends and neighbors, have seen fit to organize a Ku Klux Klan in Thomson ... it is our earnest hope that these our friends will soon come to see the Klan idea for what we honestly believe it to be, a dangerous mistake...
...well-intentioned idea, but it did not provide The Reporter's reporters with a plain or specific journalistic target, and the first issue showed it. Almost half of the 36-page issue was devoted to a leisurely, dull analysis of President Truman's program for developing the world's backward areas. The rest of the articles ranged from a talk with an Iowa farmer to an essay on the Adamses of Massachusetts. Future issues will also be devoted to one political or economic "symphonic theme," such as civil rights, cotton...
...Miller best likes "carving nudes out of stone, but I also want to keep the quality of the stone itself, so I suppose I'm trying to blend realism and abstraction, in a way." The translucent alabaster boulder he used for Subconscious was what gave Miller his idea for the figure itself: "I used to turn the boulder and look at it a lot, in the sunlight that came in from the garden window, and after a while it got so I could practically see what I wanted to carve-as if it were floating there inside the stone...
Most meteorologists believe that the weather is a product of the workings of the earth's atmospheric temperatures and pressures and its rotation. Abbot, while head of the Smithsonian Institution's -As-trophysical Observatory (1906-27) and then as the institution's secretary, got the idea that the weather on earth also reflects what is happening on the sun. Since his retirement in 1944, he has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...