Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This lottery idea may backfire on the administration." remarked Cartright, a conservative math major from Missouri. "We low numbers are being radicalized...
...voice that explains that you cannot see most of the sites because they are in back of you. It also gives you the name of every commander at the battle and tells you where they all went. You are told far too much to understand anything, except the vague idea that farmers were shooting in the fields. (It is difficult to get a sense of the farmers. After all, they were revolutionaries-and the bourgeoisie...
...Mark Goodman, who wrote this week's story and recently flew out to Los Angeles to gather his own impressions over three days with Raquel and her husband and friends. "I was impressed by her brightness," says Goodman. "She is terribly concerned with her image-with the idea that she is only a screen personality and is not a bona fide person in people's minds." As a matter of fact, notes Goodman, it was curious to see that Raquel, for all her visibility, goes almost unrecognized by passers-by on the street...
...Jack became a presidential possibility after the 1956 convention, Joe was careful to recede more and more into the background. The idea that father and son almost never agreed on political issues was encouraged. "Dad is a financial genius, all right," John Kennedy once said, "but in politics he is something else...
...psychic shock, a moment of terror, of mortal danger or tremendous joy, a man does not behave 'naturally.' " By attacking the whole concept of natural behavior, Grotowski divorces himself from the cult of psychological realism, as exemplified, in the Actors' Studio. The Actors' Studio idea is that the self is an onion. If one peels off enough layers, one will reach emotional verity. But Grotowski's goal is spiritual truth. Through strenuous physical exercise and contemplative disciplines, his actors are trained to ignite as if in an atmosphere of pure oxygen...