Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anthony Eden's main supporters in his Suez policy. I am proud of it." He was "surprised" that Gaitskell should bring up the subject: "If everybody were to see again those hysterical broadcasts of his, they would have a shock." Sarcastically he taunted: "The Opposition's chief idea in a difficulty is to run away from it. The ostrich and not the eagle should be their crest...
...idea is to spring a thousand-ton platform into position by means of many small atomic explosions...
Munch's exclusion of several soprano and alto parts, however, seemed not such a bad idea, since Saramae Endich and Florence Kopleff turned out to be not in the same league as Adele Addison and Martha Lipton, who often appear with the B.S.O. The other soloists, however, performed excellently. As the Evangelist, Hughes Cuenod stood out, his lyric tenor voice reaching every corner of Symphony Hall, although he began to tire in part two. Mack Harrell sang Jesus with great expressiveness; the most tender moment of the whole afternoon as it should have been, was his "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani...
...This idea, called revolving credit or check credit, was pioneered by Boston's First National Bank in 1955. Last week its Vice President Harold B. Hassinger told the Chicago meeting that profits from the plan not only run 50% higher than on personal loans, but that it has helped boost personal loan business 40% by popularizing credit. Said Hassinger: "Don't be surprised if this plan does ultimately displace most everything but the open charge account with the grocer and other retail outlets...
...communion. This idea binds together a sheaf of reflections on the nature, meanings, and ends of painting by TIME's Art Editor Alexander Eliot (Three Hundred Years of American Painting). Highly personal, aphoristic, poetic, Sight and Insight shuns critical pedantries in art to speak of bigger things-life and death, God and man, the wisdom of children, the power of dreams, love, fate, and the human soul...