Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pointed out that strontium 90 derives not from the testing of big H-bombs alone-which Stevenson would stop-but from any process of nuclear fission. "Thus the idea that we can 'stop sending this dangerous material into the air,' by concentrating upon small fission weapons, is based upon apparent unawareness of facts...
Since not even all Communist leaders are alike, the Kremlin tries to put their differences to work. The result is something like an old-fashioned cuckoo clock with a smiling face emerging to indicate sunshine and a dour face to indicate storm. The idea used to work like clockwork, too: dour or smiling, the face was still Communist. But the leaders whom the Kremlin now has to call on are men.who have suffered for their deviations, Marxists with the mark of Communist prisons on them, and ideas of their own. The men called back to power in Hungary last week...
...outline a plan. Though no city had ever tried it. Taylor's three companions-Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton of the University of Chicago, President John Rettaliata of the Illinois Institute of Technology and Chairman Lenox Lohr of the Illinois governor's commission on higher education-decided that the idea might be just the thing to help solve their problem...
...huddling together of figures conveys in almost primitive fashion our need for one another if man is to be saved from fear and hunger. But at the same time man must be alone as well as related. Kollwitz develops this idea in her self portraits...
...speculator, however wild his imagination may be, must be careful always to criticize his own speculations. That is why the Speculative Society spends as much time criticizing its fanciful ideas as it does creating them. There must be "signals," the speculator's term for actual scientific fact, as well as "noise," the vague and indefinite element of speculation, in order for an idea to have any validity. Ordinary science has a high signal-to-noise ratio; speculation is mostly noise, Batteau admits, but not entirely...