Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist mayor, just back from a trip to the U.S., said the agreement was "unbelievably better than anything we had expected after all those months." Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer, president of the Bonn council, warned that "failure to reach agreement [at Bonn] would be a fiasco for the democratic idea and a catastrophe...
...whose iris (rainbow) promises safety as to Noah. The externalised Logos [Word] is a sort of promise that the outside world fits our thoughts. Christ walked on the water and the doves of Noah's ark and of the Holy Spirit before creation brooded over it; the idea is that you control the disorder of the outside world by sharing it and delighting...
...handles war fought on the executive level. The screen is filled with maps, charts, tables of plane losses, and movies-within-movies of the latest German jet-fighters. The Generals push their map-pins and calculate their losses with a pleasant detachment from reality, unfortunately near the conventional idea of all military command. This was not true of the play; it is not characteristic of all films. "Paisan," which showed just how good war movies could be, had a command decision too, in an episode involved with guerrilla warfare in the lonely river marshes north of Rome, but "Paisan...
Last and least, there are the maids. The Department pays these ladies on a part-time basis, the idea being that they will make beds and dust rooms in return...
From an adventurous idea, the Seminar has after two years established itself on a permanent basis. Its success and the welcome it has had in Europe have persuaded other colleges to make plans for similar institutions elsewhere. It has proved that national boundaries and even the "Iron Curtain" can be transcended. Last month President Conant wrote of the Seminar. "At a time when there is a great deal of talk about international good will and altogether too little evidence that such good will is on the increase, it is heartening to know that the experiment at Schloss Leopoldskron is becoming...