Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corruption of a major communications medium. The Christian Science Monitor's call for a government-established network, run like the BBC by a "public corporation" and paid for by the licensing of TV receivers, seemed a logical solution to some. Last week Pundit Walter Lippmann advanced a similar idea for a new network dedicated not to private profit but to public service...
...should not," said Columnist Lippmann, "shrink from the idea that such a network would have to be subsidized and endowed . . . Why should it not be subsidized and endowed as are the universities and the public schools and the exploration of space and modern medical research, and indeed the churches-and so many other institutions which are essential to a good society, yet cannot be operated for profit? . . . Among [the mass communications media] there must be some which aim not at popularity and profit but at excellence and the good life...
...Peter stalks the python, Berry's account of the hunt entwines the reader like a jungle creeper. The death of the book's villain is a grisly reminder that horror is comedy's blood brother. "Man," one character is moved to reflect, "might be an idea in the Divine Mind, but he was not a fixed idea...
Afraid of Thunder. Precocious as a writer, Joyce was also precocious sociologically. He had his first sexual experience at the age of 14 with a prostitute on a riverbank. Some small taint of degradation kept clinging to his idea of sex-one of the many dramatic paradoxes in his life. He was a near-alcoholic; yet he pursued his writing craft with monastic austerity. He had the courage to face approaching blindness, eleven eye operations, and his daughter Lucia's madness, but he ran from dogs and thunder. He renounced Roman Catholicism, but he could never rid his mind...
Many Faculty members were surprised and annoyed by the Administration's decision that the University should continue to cooperate in processing all NSF fellowships, for the Faculty had voted against continued participation in some of them. But the idea that Harvard could keep its hands clean by not actually touching the polluted affidavits was, and still is, ridiculous...