Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went numb. She became tense, and her hands lost their wave-setting skill. They shook so that she could not write legibly. She could not recall the names of regular customers, or what to charge them for a permanent. After four weeks she saw a doctor: he had no idea what to do, and for three days more she felt that she was "shaking all over inside"; she had backache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. During a month in the hospital she developed some new symptoms : spells of rapid, pounding heartbeat, periods of frantic overbreathing. Gradually the symptoms abated...
Carcasses & Calico. To the adventuring sailors of Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator, the idea of freedom for the African was as unheard of as the 20th century minerals germanium and uranium now being mined in the Congo. Slavery and servitude were the African's way of life, and in the first west coast trading posts established at the malarial edge of jungles as dark and green and impenetrable as the ocean bottom, native chieftains were only too glad to exchange the surplus humanity of their fiefs for the trinkets and calicoes of the newcomers. The human life...
...introduction of lectureships for artists and the presence of artists in residence, another suggestion made by the Overseers, was acclaimed nationally as a sound idea. This would not only enrich Harvard's art program but would inaugurate a valuable attitude toward the artist, viewing him as an articulate intellectual rather than an artisan in his own ivory tower...
Trottenberg, when notified in advance about the petition, refused to "venture a guess" about the idea's practicality. "I have not looked into the matter," he said...
...thread that connects the ten playlets is both clever and amusing, but although the individual scenes are usually witty, they are nearly inherently dangerously repetitive. Schnitzler played with a good idea a bit too long. Yet despite the fact that even seduction is not infallibly theatrical, there is ample comedy. The wit and sparkle within Schnitzler's idea comes from the delicate linguistic flirting with sex, from the inevitable dimension of anticipation in each scene, from individual characterizations, and from the differences between seductions...