Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that I have been delighted to find so many men like yourself who, in a period known to many critics as the Age of Conformity, have been eager to experiment with a new idea. I am grateful to you for this expression of independence and genuine interest. Sincerely yours, John M Bullitt Master Quincy House
...Rich. As payment, the stars demand about half a movie's budget, and get most of it under the table ("black money") in order to bilk the tax collector. Although often of low-caste birth, they win such passionate public adulation (oddly mixed with India's idea that actresses are on a level with prostitutes) that they have to be constantly escorted by baton-swinging cops. "These are the new maharajahs," says one bitter moviemaker. "When I think of the money we gamble on them, I can't sleep...
...mind over matter and awe over pleasure. It was intended not to produce an illusion of reality, but rather to lift the temple visitor into an other-worldly realm of contemplation. This conception of sculpture reigned supreme for untold centuries, until the classical Greeks traded it for a new idea of their own, which was simply to make stone seem as real as flesh and similarly beautiful...
Lady L. is a literary confection, as light and spry, and in its way as corny, as if it did not have an idea between its covers. The lady of the title is one of the last grandes dames of England. One of her grandsons is a director of the Bank of England, another will soon be a bishop, and a third is a Cabinet minister-although she can remember when a politician at her dinner table would have been as unthinkable as an American. She is 80 on the day the book opens, but she is still so beautiful...
Alexander is not the Eastern, blue-blooded banker once associated with the idea of Morgan & Co. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., son of a grain and feed merchant, went to Vanderbilt ('23) and Yale Law School. He worked on Morgan affairs as a partner of the giant Wall Street law firm of Davis Polk, so impressed J. P. Morgan Jr. that he became a Morgan partner in 1939. He became chairman in 1955, with a reputation for topflight banking and for building Morgan's staff. In line with Morgan's new look, Alexander does...