Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partisanship, I will be glad to make amends either privately or publicly, as he may wish. I might as well warn him in advance, however, that if he intends to persuade me that there is anything much to be said in favor of Mr. Curley or against the idea of driving Mr. Curley from public life, he has a considerable job on his hands...
...just why he was impelled to write the article is unclear. That Harvard's Jewish students rank high scholastically, that they are active in extra-curricular groups, and that they are not in the clubs are facts well-known to those who care about them. It's a fine idea to run non-fiction research articles; but this reviewer cannot see the raison d'etre of a basically divisive statistical outline...
...Reaching for Our Hats." Royall's aide, Major James King, gave his own version of what his boss had said: "We can't leave Japan, but it might not be a bad idea if some of the Japs thought we were reaching for our hats...
Bernard Baruch, 78, accepting the honorary chairmanship of the Hearst national oratory contest, had some advice for members of the younger generation who aspire to be elder statesmen: "Ability and facility to express an idea is almost as important as the idea itself...
This re-evaluation of Harvard's English instruction can have some good results if well handled. Certainly the idea of teaching writing along lines useful in later life is a welcome change from the "What I Did This Summer" themes of English a. But this brings up problems which are going to have to be licked to make the program work out. The GE announcement implies that the course papers will be read for writing skill as well as context, and that the student who fails to meet basis standards will be required to take the corrective course: an eminently...