Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since there is no public discussion of most controversial petitions, an elected Marshal "had no idea the petition even existed until after it was in circulation," Croman noted. "He had no chance to defend himself before most students had seen the petition...
...reasons for their lower cost. They are also slightly simpler and less flexible than their American counterparts. But the cries of "dumping" and "unfair competition" raised by Bridges, Keating, and Hill are not reflections of the facts of the case, but distortions based on the old American idea that nobody can defeat American free enterprise in free competition...
...added up to Dada, the great antiart movement of 40 years ago. Like Johns, the Dadaists deliberately tried to strip art of all sentiment and all significance. They would exhibit a urinal as sculpture, for example, to get across the idea that a statue is no better and no worse than a urinal. Thus degraded, Dada soon grew the snaky locks of surrealism. Next year's fair-haired boy may well have his pockets full of limp watches, and may also be hailed as a pioneer...
...miles of empty space. Near it was what looked like a cylinder of dirty pink soap. It was plastic foam, encasing apparatus that might be destined to orbit the sun until the end of the solar system. Puffing on a battered pipe, Van Allen peered, commented, sketched an idea for a new circuit, then was summoned to take a long-distance call from the Army's rocket lab in Huntsville, Ala. So the day began...
Painters & Probers. By art, Barzun seems to mean a cult of the sensibility; by science, a mystical cult of facts; and by philanthropy, he means a kind of goofy general doctrine of charity that holds that no idea or person can be dismissed just because the idea is absurd or the person incompetent...