Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watson commented yesterday that "it wouldn't surprise me a bit" if the move failed. Perkins, although he refused to consider the outcome of the issue, dismissed the idea of "horse-trading" hours from one day to another as "nonsense...
...this age of sound trucks and stickers, it is unlikely that many in Cambridge will be entirely unaware by Tuesday that an election campaign is going on. But it seems even more unlikely that many people will have much idea of the issues of the 1959 campaign. Even those people actively involved in the campaign might be hard-pressed to tell you what issues are involved, and if there are unexpected surprises in the outcome, it will be still hard to tell what policy has triumphed...
...Independents, on the other hand, not required by their supporters to present detailed stands on such issues, come into the council without any such proposals--without, in fact, any clear idea of how to vote on them. Thus, when a CCA-initiated proposal comes up for action, the Independents may vote against it because some special-interest group has requested opposition or just because they are suspicious of any sort of CCA proposal which seems to have no origin in popular demand...
...originally presented, it never came near the excellent level of previous Council reports, being intemperate in language and exaggerated in scope. Such statements as, "Every student who signs the affidavit in effect forfeits the liberty of thought and expression guaranteed in the Bill of Rights... Should the slightest revolutionary idea enter his head, he commits a felony under the law," led one member of the Council to term the report "immaturely worded, overstated, and superficial...
...took the Tufts president to see President Lowell, and Lowell was quite taken with the idea," Pound said yesterday. "Now, it's more than 25 years since I put the idea across." Although few but Pound foresaw it in 1933, the Fletcher School today fills a real and growing need...