Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked why he had not produced the documents before; why had he kept them hidden for so many years? He was a Quaker; he recoiled at the idea of hurting anyone or of ruining anyone's life...
Bringing New York's crackerjack little company to Chicago was largely the idea of the Chicago Tribune's caustic critic Claudia Cassidy, who had insistently trumpeted, "Why doesn't Chicago have something like it?" Claudia deserved some of the credit for the opening-night success (though the house was not sold out) and a subsequent Carmen (which did sell out). Wrote she: "If we are to have opera on a budget, either visiting or in residence, we may as well know immediately what it is like. Salome indicated that it is vivid, effective, sometimes brilliant, and that...
...other hand, Pearson's showmanship and love of spectacles combined with his Quaker faith to produce the Friendship Train. He first voiced the idea, and spent thousands of dollars to get it rolling across the U.S. last year, gathering up 700 carloads of food (worth $40 million) for France and Italy. It was not only potent propaganda for the U.S. in the East-West battle, but a memorable and characteristically Quaker act. Said the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond, of the Friendship Train: "One of the greatest projects ever born of American journalism." Next month...
...indoctrinate everyone coming here with the idea they're not supposed to hurt somebody, or to beat somebody," Lamar said yesterday. "They're supposed to learn boxing...
...idea of concerted efforts to improve the Square business was first presented and approved at a meeting in October by Richard A. Dow '35, president of the Association. Central Square has had a similar program for some time...