Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father was a moderately successful lawyer who had the idea that Iowa was going to become a wasteland, made plans to move out of the state and raise nuts somewhere; but he stayed. Meredith's mother Rosalie, a Sunday-school superintendent for 40 years, nicknamed him "Glory" because he always had a smile on his face. Rosalie acted in amateur plays-a daring hobby at the time-and grew lilies of the valley on the north side of the house. She kept Lorna Doone and Tennyson within easy reach of the Willson children, and dressed curly-haired Meredith...
...tried, the style would have been in the way. Of course, Morris was a bit naive. He hadn't translated literature into an ontological entity, and terms like "rendition" seemed little more than post facto price tags on genius. Morris, an aristocrat beneath the talcum powder, objected to the idea of fiction which has been the kept woman of the bourgeoise, the Critics. And James was really a critic writing handbooks...
...people who wrote the Scripture down. Said one bishop: "The Bible mustn't be thought of as the Koran is thought of. It hasn't got the personal authority of the word of Mohammed behind it, but its every word is illuminated by the Holy Spirit. This idea we must get across once again, and if we can, people may understand that the Bible can help them deal with many of today's problems by guiding them in the way the problems should be approached...
...quickly evident that Kemper had no idea the Communists were using the Americans as hostages to pressure the State Department into recognition of the East German government. When Topping asked permission to present the facts of the case to Kemper so he could answer questions intelligently, he was cut off with: "No statements." But a Communist official promptly made a statement of his own: "The German Democratic Republic is making no political conditions for your release. It is the American side that is making the conditions...
...through the Minotaur's cave. Much of it is a sheer adventure yarn, full of javelin-play, wrestling, bull dancing (the Cretan version of bullfighting) and those gory sudden deaths and bloody double dealings to which the ancient Greeks were so prone that they probably invented the serene idea of the "golden mean" as an antidote...