Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evil, unmovable, base nature of human beings. We are beasts and so shall we remain as long as somebody's wife is better looking than ours; as long as a neighbor has a better car than ours; as long as our shouting for a principle or idea is overtaken by someone who shouts louder; as long as we may feel that there are weaker beasts willing to be told, to be led, to be directed. We have been like that from prehistoric man to the scholars of today. Because this country has refused to accept that fact...
...idea for the Public Theater began with Papp's feeling that, while Shakespeare speaks to modern man, he wanted also to stage contemporary plays dealing with contemporary themes. "I wanted a theater," he explains, "that was doubting, questioning, grey not pink, that took on a social character. The world is dark, and I felt a need for works that would reflect that mood. I did not want another menu theater-a little of this, a little of that-like our regional and repertory companies...
Poetic Package. Currently on display at Manhattan's Dwan Gallery are 41 works consisting mostly of words or scale drawings. Among them is one work titled Art as Idea as Idea, which is simply a photographic blowup of the dictionary definition of real. It is the end product of Joseph Kosuth's struggle with the artistic problem of defining what "the real thing is." Says Kosuth gravely: "I think the importance of all art is its ideas." Japanese-born Shusaku Arakawa shows a canvas on which is handwritten a recipe for banana cake. Who, after all, could show...
...airport authority foresees satellite airports located no more than 150 miles from International Airport. Travelers would go to the satellites, be ferried by short-takeoff or vertical-takeoff planes to International to catch their longer flights to someplace else. Oakland Airport Manager Glenn A. Plymate has a more advanced idea. He thinks that industry should make such communications as telephone and television so sophisticated that businessmen could conduct nearly all of their business in the office and would hardly ever need...
...billion in automotive imports-both cars and parts-that entered the U.S. last year, one country accounted for 60%. The country is Canada, and the curious thing about it is that few Americans who bought Canadian-made cars had any idea that they were doing...