Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stone. The picture next to it, Death on the Beach, an enlarged and different view of the body helps to get at the deeper meaning of this picture which has such personal significance for the artist. There are other opportunities in this exhibition to follow the development of an idea by the artist. Patterson, for example which begins like one of the bleak building fronts in Shahn's earlier work slowly evolves into a picture of color and perspective to which an ironic frieze motif along the top of the building has been added...
Speaking at the first annual AFROTC banquet, Leach commented that the single armed force plan "might, with luck, be completed within the present administration." He went on to say that President Eisenhower had endorsed the idea...
Leach labeled Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson's recent redefinition of the three services as "unrealistic." He scored the idea that the types of missions undertaken by the Army, Navy and Air Force had to be limited...
Developing his concept, Leach suggested that the projected single Armed Force should be divided into strictly mission or functional organizations. In explaining his mission idea, Leach visualized the single Armed Force as being divided into such groups as a long range attack group, an anti-submarine group, a ground-commando group, and a continental defense group. Leach also noted logistical and support units would also be organized...
Despite their initial successes, however, the supporters of the idea remain cautious about their visions of what a Center can accomplish. Effective arguments could be built on the expectation that a school in International Studies at Harvard might make significant contributions to political science. But primary justification for the Center is being drawn instead from the manifest need to correct the currently deplorable situation, in which the University's valuable resources are being squandered through lack of emphasis and coherent organization...