Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Idea Man. At the end of the first season, last June, the Editorial Policy Board urged the foundation to dismiss Westin and wondered if maybe the whole project should be dropped. Instead, it was the policy board, not the lab, that the foundation eliminated. Westin was retained, though with a coequal executive editor, Frederick Bohen, a 31-year-old ex-member of the White House staff...
...assistant dean at Princeton before going to Washington, Bohen had never worked as a journalist or film maker, but was considered the tough administrator and idea man needed to complement Westin's production experience...
...playhouse needs is a moat, and it could pass for a medieval fortress. Yet it is not forbidding. The new home of Houston's 21-year-old Alley Theater is a child's idea of a castle-a genuine playhouse. The sandblasted concrete with its nine turreted towers glows like imprisoned sunlight; glass has succumbed to stone. And behind the facade, inner grace balances outer strength. The stairways are cascades of red-orange carpeting; the low ceilings are dimpled with lights embedded in them like flat moons, and the throwaway nooks and crannies have no function except...
False Messiah. As Galileo, Tony van Bridge is far from the ravenous sensualist of thought that Brecht had in mind, a man as avid for "a new idea as for an old wine." He nibbles fastidiously at a part that calls for gorging. This glutton of the mind is an intellectual mercenary. He will retract theories, integrity and self-respect so long as he is paid off with his life. Knowledge is an appetite for him and not an unstained banner of loyalty to scientific inquiry or a mandate to kill the belief in God. He is the typical Brechtian...
...example of the flaw that pervades nearly all the pieces. For most readers, Pilavachi's piece may be the only example of anything in the issue, because it's mighty hard to read much further after finishing this one. The piece has the right premise: by lightly ridiculing the idea that "there is really nothing at all funny about this sordid world," and suggesting a special committee to investigate evil "completely and without incompetence," someone like Russell Baker might make us is really nothing at all funny about this sordid world," and suggesting a special committee to investigate evil "completely...