Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About Heaven and Hell: the humans-in-Heaven idea probably began about 1000 B.C. with Greek hero worship. Previously Heaven was for gods only. Since Hell had been for everybody, good or bad, maybe it seemed inconceivable that it should be a tormenting place...
...fill the new seats. While IATA international air travel has been increasing at a rate of about 15% a year, that is not enough to fill the new jet capacity. The obvious solution is to cut fares to bring air travel within reach of a wider market. The idea has already been tried on the North Atlantic; last year for the first time IATA allowed "economy" fares 20% below tourist rates, and the lines reported a passenger increase of 26.8% for the year...
...mind. No period is stated; the prisoner's name carries echoes of Roman civic virtue, the jailers' names are Russian, and the executioner is known (in an echo of the French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre. The prison itself is timeless, universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management shall in no case be responsible for the loss of property or for the inmate himself"), the handless clock on which a watchman hourly paints in the hands, and, above all, the jailers' constant and somehow insane concern for the prisoner...
...addition to the School Committee campaign, Barnes says he is "really excited" about Latin-American legal relations. "The idea of One America is more than just political talk. It is important to reconcile our concept of the government under law with the Latin American idea of law as what the government says...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18--The steel industry yesterday proposed to arbitrate the issue of work rule changes--one of the main obstacles to a steel strike settlement. The union rejected the idea...