Word: idea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...credit Albert Einstein with the origination in 1917 of the theory behind the laser [July 12]. The origin of the theory of the laser is credited to Columbia University Physicist Charles Townes, who conceived of the idea for the maser in 1951. The maser theory led directly to the laser theory in the late 1950s. If one is to search any farther back for a causative scientific theory, one must not be so shortsighted as to focus on 1917. The actual origin of the theory that made the laser possible must be credited to the Greek scientists Leucippus...
...mistake, says Harvard Political Scientist Henry Kissinger, to think of peace as some final state of nirvana that beckons seductively somewhere around the bend. "We have to get rid of the idea that there is some terminal date," he says, "after which we live with a consciousness of harmony." In fact, Moscow and Washington seem to have come to much the same conclusion. "The Russians," notes an American delegate to the 18-nation Geneva disarmament conference, "can be bitchy about Berlin or Czechoslovakia while at the same time wanting to move ahead on disarmament." The U.S., he might have added...
...President must really assume a role in a morality play, a ritual drama in which Americans expect him to slay evil. That idea goes back to the founders' exultant belief that America was truly God's country, the nation charged with the task of proving that a free society could thrive. This belief lingers, and it is not confined to assertive patriots. Consciously or unconsciously, it is shared by the country's harshest critics, including the New Left, whose very anger is based partly on the assumption that the U.S. should be near-perfect, a working Utopia...
...World has run very little news of the party, which is not making much news these days in the U.S. Nor is ideology pervasive in all stories. A critic took exception to an off-Broadway play, The American Pig, which ridicules life in the U.S. "The idea of satirizing vulgarity by being more vulgar backfires," wrote the critic. "If you murder art-somebody is going to pay for it." In the old days, it would have been rank heresy for a Communist to value art above social content...
...church to support of the poor and the underprivileged. There were 32 delegates from developing nations, for example, on the 105-man committee that drafted the document on peace and international justice, which not only condemned the use of nuclear weapons in war but also gave support to the idea of selective pacifism. Traditionally, Christian moral theology has accepted conscientious objection only on the all-or-nothing basis of opposition to all warfare. Reflecting a new consensus of pacifists, both religious and secular, the council's resolution declared that churches should "give spiritual care and support to those...