Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game hunt in Africa with Arthur Godfrey, and mulled the reasons for this sudden command appearance before the top Pentagon brass. The scuttlebutt had told: he was to be offered the job of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. Curt LeMay took three days to think over the idea. Last week he reappeared at the Pentagon -this time without the mustache-and accepted...
...lied to the security officers.... Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the nature and circumstances of the incident. Dr. Oppenheimer was approached by a friend, Prof. Haakon Chevalier, while he was director of the atomic research program at Los Alamos, who suggested that it might be a good idea to keep our Russian allies abreast of the progress of the research. He volunteered to help transmit such information "informally." This proposal was summarily rejected by Dr. Oppenheimer on the ground that any such suggestion would have to be implemented through appropriate governmental channels...
Early in the lecture, Oppenheimer said that his idea of the unity of science was not at all like that of Laplace, who thought that an observer knowing exactly the present state of the entire universe could predict exactly the future. This notion, he said, was inconsistent in a "deep, profound sense" with the nature of the world and man's knowledge...
...great tradition in which my own idea of a university happens to have been formed," Singleton continued. "I am happy to return...
Speaking before a near capacity audience in the New Lecture Hall, Shahn delivered his fourth talk in the series of six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, entitled "Image and Idea." The artist gave his first three lectures during November...