Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaker also described Brandeis's distaste for the idea that bigness is necessary for efficiency and cited his application of this concept to constitutional interpretations...
...Shahn, one of America's foremost painters, will deliver the first of the 1956-57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures tonight at 8:30 in New Lecture Hall. Three of the series of talks, entitled "Idea and Image," will be given this fall, with three more scheduled for the spring...
...blaming the individualist for racial prejudice. Jett Rink, in his supreme poor form, calls Mrs. Bick Benedict III (a Mexican-American) a "squaw." Obviously Bick Benedict II (the standing order) would never do this, whether because of his sense of security or his fear of society. But Hollywood's idea that the individualist Jett Rink would be more racially prejudiced simply because he is not "other-directed" is amazing...
...Brandeis abhorred the philosophy of insurance which obscured the individual's responsibility in the 20th century," Freund continued. He refused to accept the idea that "great historical dooms" sweep man's attempts aside...
...homosexual tie, and 30 years ago the words "sex" or "perversion" or "degenerate" would have seemed adequate to explain why two rich, intellectual boys should make a game of murder. Levin is not content with this explanation. He points out that Friedrich Nietzsche had introduced them to the idea of the superman, "beyond good and evil." A really superior man, they reasoned-in one of those gloomy blunders which snarl up the scribbled notebook of adolescence-could put himself above and beyond society by the successful commission of a pointless crime. They burned sheds, robbed fraternity houses, cheated at cards...