Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Being, therefore, much puzzled by the constant repetition of this word, I have taken some pains to discover what the average Harvard man thinks a university is, and I find his idea of it to be pretty much as follows: Strictly voluntary attendance at all college exercises is the most prominent feature. The morning is spent in sleep and in breakfasting luxuriously in one's room, after which the real business of the day begins. This is either rowing on the river, or a long excursion into the country with a tandem, returning in time for dinner, which, dressed...
...knows the music so well that he understands the composer's unconscious logic, the critic is ready to write an "analytical score" that isolates and interweaves the composition's various themes, phrases, harmonies and rhythms, thereby demonstrating how they relate to each other and to the central idea. The analytical score is played as a series of interludes after each movement; in the case of the Mozart Quartet, the original piece takes about 30 minutes, the interludes 17 minutes. Their effect is like looking at a painting, then watching a series of lantern slides of different portions...
...lowest Hells Canyon dam that Idaho Power Co. is licensed to build. But Pleasant Valley, under hard study by the Interior Department since last year, would certainly save more fish than Nez Perce, be within range of private financing. The Oregon Water Resources Board has endorsed Seaton's idea. Whatever happened to the fish, they had kidnaped the dams from the politicians...
...total of 20 families are being housed in completely equipped structures with up to four bedrooms and spacious yards. Furthermore, the authority expects that separate houses will be much easier to sell to private buyers, as it hopes to do eventually. Philadelphia is mulling over the single-house idea to rehabilitate some sagging row-house areas, and the New York City Housing Authority plans nine one-block projects this year...
...main argument is over how much help the U.S. Government should give private industry. AEC's position is that nuclear power for peaceful purposes should be largely a private venture, with AEC supplying only limited funds. Originally, businessmen supported the idea, lest nuclear energy grow into a giant public-power program. Now their position has changed. Even the stoutest private-power men feel that the program needs a strong infusion of Government aid because commercial nuclear power is so new, so complex and so costly that private companies cannot carry the burden alone. Says President Newton I. Steers...