Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what purpose is served? By relating the artists through and background more closely to his work, a more precise idea of Shahn's achievement might have resulted. The book would have been perhaps less interesting but better if the author had stuck more strictly to his intention, or discarded the argument entirely...
...Author Wister, whose publishers blanked out the epithet, "I always regretted having to use '----' instead of the real oath that caused the Virginian to say 'When you call me that, smile.' I never had any sympathy with censorship; after all, if a word expresses an idea and only that word will do, it should be used...
...Chicago's boodling, buccaneering Democratic machine, the idea of a reformer as state's attorney (county prosecutor) has long been unthinkable. Last week the unthinkable happened: Benjamin S. Adamowski, a onetime Democrat who turned Republican in protest against the machine's wide-open rule, was elected Cook County state's attorney, with his own detective force, the power of subpoena-and the personal ability and determination to give the organization some days it will never forget. In an election that saw Republicans carry Cook County for Eisenhower, for U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen and nearly all county...
...years prominent American Jews had talked about the idea, but it was not until after World War II that seven Bostonians finally decided to make it a reality. The seven were all immigrants or the sons of immigrants. All had been successful, and all wanted to find a way to show their gratitude to the nation in which they had prospered. In 1946 they launched their campaign to establish Brandeis University -the first Jewish-founded nonsectarian university...
...argument is simple enough: should the men of the family, by conviction all confirmed pacifists, fight a band of Confederate raiders who are invading the territory? Mother Birdwell, a woman of strong convictions and an ordained minister of her church, is all against the idea, but her husband, who has already demonstrated a somewhat "worldly" tendency by his predilection for horseracing, can't quite make up his mind. He finally stays home but lets his teen-age son go off to take a few potshots at the rebels. The admirable thing about all this is not so much that...