Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Original dramatic ideas come so rarely to TV that they deserve better treatment than The Ninth Day got from Playwrights Dorothy and Howard Baker last week on Playhouse 90. For more than half its length, the play was up to the idea. Seventeen years after a nuclear holocaust, the last hope of propagating the race lies in the-only two teen-agers of eight survivors on a California hilltop. After bickering through childhood like brother and sister, the boy (John Kerr) and the girl (surprisingly well played by Piper Laurie) are pressed, balking and shying, into marriage. The wedding preparations...
...system, public and private. Members of the American Bankers Association and such experts as Allan Sproul, retired president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, have recently called for a study. A month ago an advisory panel of bankers and economists to the Senate Banking Committee backed the idea. Last week Texas Representative Wright Patman introduced a resolution into Congress calling for a sweeping look at the whole credit problem. ∙ The basic question is whether drastic changes should be made in the methods used by FRB to control credit to match the drastic changes that have taken place...
Used in competition for the first time last Saturday, the relay team clinched Harvard's victory over Dartmouth. On the basis of these results, McCurdy will stick with his latest idea...
Although no other eastern team is using gloves, McCurdy said that the idea has bees tried before. "Several coaches attempted to use rubber surgeon's gloves but found that they were too tight and slippery. So we tried cotton gloves and they seem to have worked out quite well...
...these devices for converting the sacred written word into a means of communication instead of an artistic expression have received enthusiastic support from the insensitive exponents of mass culture, men who believe that the communication of ideas is more important than the manual arts. Of course I am not opposed to communicating ideas, and I think ideas are a good thing. But the idea that ideas can exist without a mastery of the Palmer method, without a well developed right hand, is one of the most insidious ever proposed...