Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hungry males ogling the windows of female - filled Wiggles-worth, the sight of a bare nail-polished foot extended upon a chair during a final exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed by the Summer News, all the respondents voiced approval of their courses, far higher...
...world is aroused enough to take a stand. That's what the Chinese and Soviets are taking advantage of. That's the big issue, not Quemoy and Matsu. In the last four years there has been a very marked growth in the quality of appeasement, the idea of not getting involved in other people's fights. It is almost true that the U.S. is the only nation in the world today that is not in that mood...
Returning to his busy life, Fowles felt healthy. The 90 days passed. "I thought there was something wrong with my wife," he recalls. "She seemed to be going to pieces, and I had no idea...
Ever since Protagoras brandished the philosophical motto that "man is the measure of all things," thus declaring man's personal freedom an unlimited absolute, sages and philosophers have been fascinated with the idea of freedom. Today, after some 2,500 years, the idea remains just as vital and just as fascinating...
...exposing certain of their contradictions, snubbed revered Educator John Dewey by spoofing pragmatism as bits of useful information at the price of wisdom. As a philosophy professor, he campaigned against universities' traditional system of departmentalization and specialization. As an author, he tried to summarize (in his The Great Ideas-a Syntopicon) the history of Western thought (to be found in the Hutchins-and Adler-edited Great Books of the Western World), to reduce man's search for wisdom to 102 basic ideas. For the last six years, as director of the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco...