Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Publishing several examples of a poet's work seems like a much better idea than a former Advocate one, that of printing small snatches of many poets, often not too good. With Whitbread, as with Stephen Sandy in an earlier issue, this new notion has worked out well...
...schedule already strained. Six days a week Adler, 56, disappears into a 55-year-old Pacific Heights mansion in San Francisco, headquarters for the Institute of Philosophical Research. Behind this imposing title and façade, Adler and six fellow brains have spent seven years patiently sifting the "Great Ideas" of the ages (by Adler's classification, 102), seeking to mold their meaning into patterns intelligible to all men. At the institute's rate of progress (their first "Great Idea," freedom, is half explored), the job will take 12 centuries...
Imaginative people have mulled the idea for years. Novelist Arthur Conan Doyle, who visualized the earth's shell as a living creature, made his fictional Professor Challenger poke a sharp drill eight miles down, called his story When the World Screamed. AMSOC's goal is to pierce the Mohorovicic discontinuity, which scientists call the Moho for short...
Blue v. Blue. Dr. Singley knew that he was dealing with methemoglobinemia, in which poisoned red cells carry no oxygen, and other cells cannot deliver enough, to the tissues. Many chemicals can cause the condition, and Dr. Singley had no idea which was to blame. But the remedy is the same: methylene blue, given intravenously, restores hemoglobin to normal oxygen-bearing function. Dr. Singley tried it on both boys and they responded quickly, lost their weird bluish cast...
...also return," not so much reuniting man with his immediate past as carrying him far back through the centuries, to begin again at Christendom's own beginning. And it is to this point of origin that Amadeus struggles to find his way-to be reborn in the idea of the Nativity itself and to stand, with his two brothers, in the same relation to the hope-bearing Child as did three wise men of the East 2.000 years before...