Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because local commercial interests and both landlords and tenants in buildings likely to be selected for demoition opposed the whole idea of renewal, the Rogers project has spent seven stormy years in the planning stage...
...novel is employed solely as a vehicle of idea expression and cannot be termed artistically successful. But the ideas are very much worth expressing, even though Fisher's extensive scholarship is too heavily anti-Christian weighted...
When the Chorus joined the small string group, the results were less good, as lack of rehearsal meant the strings were out of tune. Much of the Stabat Mater is written for soloists: the two girls who sang the parts had agreeable voices, but not the faintest idea of how to breathe to support their tone. Luckily, the general good humor of Pergolesi's music plus some spirited choral singing saved the work from falling apart. Nonetheless, it was the impressive individual performances rather than a smooth combination that made the concert worth-while...
...lowered, its tissues need less blood, and the brain can survive without damage for twice the normal time. Bailey wondered whether by chilling the patient (hypothermia) he could reduce the body's blood requirement to a level where some sort of pump could handle it. Then the bold idea struck him: Why not try hypothermia alone if he needed only six or eight minutes inside the heart...
...Instead of textbooks, syllabuses, and spoon-fed lectures, students will rely much more on their own wide (and required) reading of pertinent books and primary sources in the library. The whole idea, sums up President John Sloan Dickey, is to end the student's "dependence on teaching," and declare his "independence in learning...