Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rejecting the contest, spokesmen for the Houses, their costumes eloquently endorsing their words, condemned the idea as "un-Radcliffe." The vigor with which the rejection was made, however, has stimulated detractors to ask whether this enthusiasm is not too much of a good thing. Some have even suggested that funds from recent gifts should be set aside for blanket distribution of Vogue, or if this is too abrupt, of Seventeen...
Both personal and academic factors contributed to the departures, Toepfer noted. "What actually surprises me is that there are not more of them," he said. "A great many people come to the Law School with no particular motivation. They have only a vague idea that a Law degree will be helpful to them later...
...Greek, Kenneth J. Reckford, instructor in the Classics, who is directing the play, expressed particular concern to make it interesting for those who cannot understand the Greek. Socrates will be portrayed as "a professor at his worst," and The Clouds will be treated as "a take-off on the idea of a University...
Irate Denial. According to some press accounts, the U.S. and Britain could not agree on what to do in the event of a new Berlin blockade. Columnist Joseph Alsop's declaration that the British were reneging on the idea of sending an armored column through to Berlin, even as a last resort, brought British Ambassador to Washington Sir Harold Caccia hustling into the State Department with a hard denial that Britain had done any such thing. Soviet radar jamming devices now all but rule out an easy repetition of the electronics-backed Berlin airlift, but the British feel that...
Coming to power last May, Charles de Gaulle made his dramatic offer to the French African territories: they could have the choice between 1) complete independence, 2) autonomy within the French Community, or 3) the status of a department of France. Toure charged that the whole idea of a French Community-which came close, but not close enough, to the British Commonwealth-would only continue "our status of perpetual dependence, our status of indignity, our status of insubordination." When De Gaulle stopped off at Conakry on his swift tour of Africa before the referendum, Toure thundered in his presence...