Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baby Sitter. In Kansas City, Mo., Harry Rosenthal pulled into a parking lot in his tiny foreign car (a B.M.W. Isetta with its only door across the front), turned the car over to an attendant, came back several hours later to find the man-who had no idea how to put it in reverse-still sitting in the car, its front end snug against the parking-lot wall...
...statehood bill, passed overwhelmingly (76-15) by the Senate the day before. Now, after 59 years of territorial status, 40 of them spent waiting impatiently for statehood, Hawaii was on its way. For years congressional opposition had been overpowering, for the pivotal Southern bloc of Democrats never relished the idea of a new state whose population and character was so seemingly alien-and so Republican to boot. It looked dark for Hawaii last year, too, when Delegate Burns deliberately stepped aside to let Alaska make its big statehood pitch alone; he was berated at home for not insisting on coupling...
...obvious answer would be to erect barriers around the canals, but barriers low enough to avoid spoiling the view would be too low to keep cars out. Last week the Royal Dutch Association for Assistance to Drowning Persons had a new idea: it began giving free lessons in how to escape from a sunken...
...know where people get this idea I'm so sinister," says Lehrer. "They have this idea I'm a lot older than I am--that could be the record jacket, of course--or 'He's not at all the way he sounds.' It's not that I'm that raffish. Perfectly nice people joke this...
...that it's my living, I've stopped doing it. Then, if it was a lousy song, nobody cared. But when I started singing for money, it was a matter of deleting songs rather than adding them. I only write songs I can use professionally now, the other ideas are generally too personal or too offensive to use on the stage. By offensive, I don't mean dirty--people have this idea I write dirty songs--but some of this stuff just wouldn't go over with an audience...