Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raymond K. Price Jr., 38, and Patrick J. Buchanan Jr., 30, will be special assistants. During the campaign both served as speechwriters and idea men. They are expected to do much the same work in the White House. Price was once a LIFE reporter, later joined the old New York Herald Tribune and rose to become its chief editorial writer. Buchanan was an editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
...concerned with the problems of creation. The four pieces performed that night were all in one way or another unsatisfactory to the Company. They had not, as Miss Hahn expressed it, taken on a life of their own; they had not told her what they wanted to say. The idea that a work of art is somehow master of its creator and can dictate to him the terms of its existence is a difficult one and one the Company did not really come to grips with in its explanations. What is boiled down to that evening was nothing more...
...always understood that he had a special relationship to the earth: he was attracted to it. It has been only in the last couple of hundred years that we've had some idea that the earth is in some small way attracted to us, though directly in proportion to its far greater importance. It is convenient when considering the throwing of yourself out of an airplane to ignore the equal and opposite force your body exerts on the earth. Especially when there could be an equal or greater number of people jumping out of planes on the other side...
...director, Milos Forman, appears in a film clip at the beginning of the movie to give an idea of what his film is about. He says that when it came out in Czechoslovakia, forty thousand firemen resigned, and in order to appease them he had to say that the firemen in the film were actually symbolic representations of society. But then, in a real comment about himself, he undercuts everything he has said by stating that the film is just about firemen. Forman presents a simple story that might easily be loaded with meaning--but he denies that...
...would have been irresponsible of me to pretend to knowledge of many disenfranchised students, when by definition those who could not vote didn't have their votes counted in any way. While several students have come forward declaring that they were not permitted to vote, I have no idea how large a group they were a part...