Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returned to Portland to court a hearty, good-looking social worker named Matilda Baricevich. "Mat" knew that marriage to Mike meant frozen bliss in the tundra. "I rather looked forward to it," she says, "even though I had the usual idea of eternal snow and sled dogs cuddling up to you in a cabin for warmth." Mike went on to Fairbanks in the fall of 1947, took his bar exams. Before the year was out, he was appointed city attorney and had settled down with Mat in a four-bedroom frame house...
...reward after reward upon the scientist, Stalin increasingly demanded servility. In the '30s, the party waged war on "academic individualism," and in the great purge of 1936-38, nearly half of the academy's party members were either shot or shipped to forced-labor camps. Cosmopolitanism (the idea that science could be foreign or Jewish), objectivism (the refusal to interpret new research in the light of Marxism), and idealism (a catch-all indictment) became the cardinal sins. The era of "fatherland science" had begun. By official decree, Russia claimed so many retroactive scientific "firsts" that its impressive past...
...there was once a time when the moderator was a referee between antagonists, today he is a ubiquitous avoider or smoother-over of differences. One of the most distinguished is Howard K. Smith of The Great Challenge (CBS). Let one of the discussants so much as intimate a fresh idea or engage another of the panelists in controversy, and there is Mr. Smith, quick on the switch, shunting the discussion into more neutral territory. The result of Mr. Smith's tactful control of the situation is that no one on his program ever manages to say anything that will...
...employment will have to be changed in the light of today's rigid wages and prices. The U.S. can no longer operate on the premise that maximum employment, i.e., 4% jobless or 2,700,000 workers, is compatible with stable prices. Unless it is willing to accept the idea of close to 5,000,000 unemployed as "reasonably full employment," then it must expect a continuing rise in prices...
...flourished in Ulysses. Because of the things that went on inside Bloom's head, writing has not been quite the same again; since he had his big, long, exhausting day, something called the interior monologue has rattled around inside many an emptier head. The latest victim of the idea that anything and everything goes, especially on paper, is an American named James Patrick Donleavy, whose cross-pollination with Bloom has produced a rank Jimson weed. Its name: Sebastian Dangerfield, chief character of a mad, and-by British critics-madly praised novel called The Ginger...