Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admiralty Churchill: "If we had had Sir Winston instead of [Prime Minister] Earl Asquith and [Prime Minister David] Lloyd George in the 1914-18 war, he would have saved a million lives. [Gallipoli] was an immortal gamble that did not come off ... Sir Winston . . . had the one strategic idea in the war. He did not believe in throwing away masses of people to be massacred...
Thielicke sharply disagrees with Karl Earth's notion that Communism is a-Christian rather than antiChristian, or with the idea that Christianity could live in a Communist-dominated world. "If the Russian steamroller flattens everything up to the Atlantic Ocean because the West has nothing in the way of defense," Thielicke has written, "then we will be denied the capability of shaping a world having proper inner and social values . . . Once dead, one cannot regenerate oneself, even inwardly...
Tommy D'Alesandro got the idea in a long, late session a month ago with the city's board of estimates. Scrambling for new revenue, they had just about settled on a sewer tax when someone brought in a copy of the next day's Baltimore Sun. On the back page was a deft cartoon by Staffer Richard Q. Yardley showing the taxpayer apprehensively brushing his teeth while Tax Collector Tommy hovered outside his bathroom. D'Alesandro got the picture. "They'll say Tommy's charging them five cents every time they flush...
...Murder a Rich Uncle (Columbia), another British entry, is advertised. with a lead ballooniness characteristic of the production, as "a do-it-yourself picture." The idea, suggested of course by the success of Kind Hearts and Coronets, was to be killingly funny, but this time the whimsy is too flimsy. The rich uncle of the title (Charles Coburn) pays a visit to his nephew-(Nigel Patrick), a spectacularly impecunious peer - long on tradition and short on port. Wouldn't dream of "imposing" on his uncle for a loan. Heavens, no. Only decent thing to do is to murder...
...only powerhouse with which Colin Wilson has been visibly connected is the reading room of the British Museum. The obsessive idea he picked up there belonged to a previous chair-warmer at the same establishment, Bernard Shaw. It is that the Life Force makes everything make sense. Presumably this is the sense, if any, of Wilson's conclusion: "If life did not pervade space and time, the universe of matter would be tohubohu, complete chaos." As for the present state of Colin Wilson's mind and thought-tohu-bohu...