Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education have discovered the virtue of the seminar and the conference, the church should also explore this avenue of intellectual discovery. According to Dr. Robert Luccock, professor of homiletics at Boston University, the intro duction of dialogue in worship means that "we are beginning to take seriously the idea that every Christian is in a true sense a minister...
...Woodland Hills Methodist Church near Los Angeles, the Rev. William E. Steel has held dialogue sermons once a month for two years. Most of his congregation likes the idea, although newcomers are shocked by the easy give-and-take of discussions. At his Episcopal church in Ignacio, Calif., Vicar Charles Gompertz occasionally stirs up dialogue by stationing a "plant" in the congregation. During a sermon, the plant may stand up and yell: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" Says Gompertz: "It really blows their minds...
Fifth-floor Cellar. There is little that is new about the use of air rights for construction; the idea got its first boost in the early 1900s, when railroads realized that there was gold in the sky above their facilities. In Manhattan, the New York Central began leasing air rights over its tracks running north from Grand Central Station. Today, many of Park Avenue's most spectacular glass-and-steel office buildings occupy railroad airspace; also over the tracks is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which, without a basement, keeps its wine cellar on the fifth floor. The 59-story...
Nixdorfs success stems from his hunch that smaller companies have neither the money nor the need for big computers to handle bookkeeping and inventories. A physics major at the University of Frankfurt 16 years ago, he first peddled his idea by traveling from company to company on a motorbike and offering to build a small computer for only $8,000. He eventually found a customer in a Ruhr Valley utility firm. When Nixdorf and one assistant built an economical working computer for the company, so many orders quickly followed that Nixdorf quit school and opened his own shop. Since that...
People ask Bob Dylan if he has a message and what it is. Sure, try asking Robert Lowell if he has a message, he won't want to talk to you. Bob Dylan's message (what he says, sings, writes) isn't any one particular idea. That is to say: sometimes he's saying man's so sinister that he's even written it into his bible, The Bible; and sometimes Dylan's talking civil rights, or sometimes he's talking about the way some people (like him) are living...