Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months before, Western Europeans had been in desperate fear of Soviet aggression. They felt then that a North Atlantic Alliance could not come fast enough. They were willing to make the national sacrifices required by Western Union. There was a sweeping urgency, then, in the idea that the West would have to become strong, stand up to Stalin-that Stalin would respect strength and keep the peace...
...Cachin speech was the more notable because he is the most "regular" of French Communists, always voicing the Moscow line; everybody in the Chamber knew that Marcel Cachin had not had an idea of his own for 40 years. Cachin said...
...hope," says Blume fervently, "that I won't get involved in still another big picture, but I suppose I will. I'm cursed that way. When I first began painting I was satisfied with putting shapes and colors together on canvas; now I have to put ideas together too." He still does small paintings as a relaxation from his idea-pictures...
...Since most of this mauling is done by thugs who work for the husband of his beautiful, frozen-faced girl (Alexis Smith), poor dear Dane suffers without a whimper. Toward the end, there is some talk of sending him off to a hospital to have his head examined-an idea which might have saved a lot of trouble earlier in the story...
...heightened by RCA's adopting its record to a new, rapid three-second changer. The adaptation requires a one and a half inch spindle hole, making it impossible for both the new RCA and Columbia records to be played on the same turntable. RCA has given up the idea of one symphony on one record, reduced the size of the record to seven inches, and come up with the startling result that its new record holds exactly the same amount of music as an old 12 incher. This leaves the entire advantage of the record in its improved tone...