Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Popular Movement branch of the Istiqual, that is the pro-F.L.N. Moroccan party, even Bourguiba, who expressed much annoyance at the F.L.N.'s disavowal of Yazid, and its constant demand for total independence before negotiation, during his talk with the F.L.N. in Tunis last month, feels that the idea of a totally autonomous Algeria is impracticable...
...second Noble lecture, he asserted that "man is fundamentally not mind, not organism, but history." The Greek idea of complete dependence on the logic of man's mind is not altogether good, Miller asserted. He felt that references to traditions and old loyalties were just as valuable as scientific reasoning...
...meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders are impervious to reasonable argument...
...high point of the series is a show on the new field of topology. Using every sort of trick-from figuring out how a boy can cover his newspaper route without ever retracing his steps, to taking off his vest without removing his coat-Baird gradually gets across the idea that topology is merely "the study of what remains unchanged in a thing," even when the shape of the thing has been completely altered, short of being torn...
INVESTMENT FUND for small business, with half the money supplied by U.S. Government and half by private investors, is urged by American Stock Exchange President Edward T. McCormick. His idea is for a $500 million investment trust to buy stock in small business; he figures that once fund gets rolling, private investors would probably want to buy up the Government's half interest...