Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectual background-his father is president of the French Medical Academy-Debré is a singleminded, fire-eating French nationalist. One of France's loudest opponents of the ill-fated European Defense Community, he has long been vocally suspicious of U.S. policy toward France, still opposes the idea of European political unity inherent in the Common Market. He believes that De Gaulle's mandate was not a right-wing but a nationalist phenomenon. He would like to see De Gaulle function as a kind of Roman-style elected dictator-with-a-time-limit. In this he is more...
Winston Churchill: "A great parliamentary figure, but not a great parliamentarian. He never took the trouble to understand procedure. He always had a general idea that he might talk whenever he pleased ... I once had to say: 'I must remind the Right Honorable Gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.' . . . What Winston always requires is some strong people round him saying, 'Don't be a fool over this.' I remember Lloyd George saying to me once, apropos of something, 'There's Winston-he's got ten ideas on this...
Toward the end no one had any idea how sick Warren in fact was. He continued working to the last. On a winter's midnight of 1899, Warren was found dead, seated in the corner of an upstairs room...
Despite the bureaucratic obstinacy which so often characterizes the mechanics of Harvard's educational process, occasionally a new and sensible idea gropes its way to realization. One of these reassuring incidents is the decision to replace final examinations in English 163 and Comp Lit 166 with lengthy reading papers...
Although Hunt felt that "basically, the idea of self-education is sound," he warned that "a lot depends on the student body chosen." For instance, the typical Harvard student "would get by" under such a system, he said...