Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration as the successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International Cooperation Administration. Such were the misgivings about John B. Hollister's intentions toward foreign aid that he snapped as he took office: "I certainly would not accept direction of any program with the idea of cutting its throat...
...nowhere was the soul-searching more intense than in London. From the moment the Common Market idea was born, British industry has been keenly aware that it will be badly hurt the day that Germany can sell her manufactures in a tariff-free market of six nations and 160 million people, while Britain is walled out. Impelled by this vision, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft last year proposed a plan for a wider Free Trade Area of 16 European nations-including the Common Market six-which would exchange manufactured goods free of tariff...
...George Liker are the policemen as well as the auxiliary dancers that appear periodically. As was the case with last week's play, the set change is effected as part of a ballet. (Actually, the credit goes to the New York production of Thieves' Carnival, from which this idea was later borrowed for Volpone in New York and here.) Liker dances well indeed, though he seems a bit heavy...
...American businessman is a reflection of his own background and personality. As a boy, he spent as much time being tutored in the arts at home as he did in a Chicago private school. Starting out young in business, he put together the Container Corp. combine, pushed the idea of modern design into such areas as annual reports and office interiors, pioneered a new type of institutional advertising with his series on the "Great Ideas of Western Man." Paepcke started to develop Aspen as a sort of all-round cultural and sport center; he has already sunk...
Author Ward's most astute observation is that the West may not be able to export the idea of individual dignity and freedom without the Judaeo-Christian metaphysics to which it is linked. She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill...