Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed deal whereby Kennedy would have remained out of the race if Johnson appointed a high-level commission to revise Viet Nam policy. The Senator confirmed that he discussed such a plan with De-fensejSecretary Clark Clifford and went ahead with his candidacy only after Johnson rejected the idea. However, Kennedy said, the commission plan was not originally his nor first advanced by him; Johnson, in a conversation with Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen had "welcomed" the notion of a commission and asked Sorensen for specific suggestions. The White House remained officially silent, but aides regarded the scheme as an ultimatum...
...program may have been a failure. It does not seem clear to me, however, that you were invited or hired to prove "Shaw is doing something; that Shaw is not just another Negro College." Time will tell that, not Harvard and Radcliffe students. Furthermore, I can not share your idea that "it was hoped that the tutors would be favorably impressed with Shaw and that Shaw would thus be vindicated by a second set of Harvard eyes." This, too, is another example of your inflated opinion of Harvard students...
Varsity soccer coach Jim Munro got some idea when he watched the freshman team play M.I.T. in 1960 and saw the African center forward sprain both the goalie's wrists with one shot...
...have suspected many a time," he continued, "that the meaning is something added to the verse." The words have a beauty beyond meaning; we feel the beauty before we think the meaning. "Therefore, we do not have to commit ourselves to a meaning. . . . The idea of words being an algebra comes from dictionaries. I don't want to be unfair to dictionaries . . . but we think that explanations exhaust the words...
...hoped would be provocative events: a discussion of Black Power, a talk on the Negro family, a film documentary on the KKK, a movie on block-busting, and a mock trial of Cassius Clay. One of the tutors questioned whether the heavy emphasis on race was a good idea. The rest of us were convinced that, on an apathetic campus--and Shaw was apathetic -- any response was better than none...