Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only recently have some members of the Harvard community, notably Winthrop House Master Bruce Chalmers, suggested that what is even more important than knowledge of the past is an understanding of the present; the former does not inevitably lead to the latter. Appealing as the idea of "learning from the past" is, there is a tendency for this kind of scholarship to indulge in obscure irrelancies. If students today are less academic than previously, it is only in the sense that they have no tolerance for the preoccupation with minutiae which frequently typifies the academic...
Nonetheless, the idea of the only march on the program being one by Anton Bruckner is a typical Walkerism. A respect for music, musicianship, and monkey business--with the present emphasis on improving the second--is rapidly creating out of the clubby organization a real wind ensemble. Problems remain, but on the basis of the improvement over the previous concert, one can of the improvement over the previous concert, one can safely predict that, given time, Walker will surmount...
...situation. You listen to something and you try to respond more or less the way you feel, within the bounds of judgment. You don't tell the patient, "We won't talk about that because I'm scared." What you might say is, "That's kind of a frightening idea." He may be frightened...
Faustus goes home and, after a few fancy ruminations, decides to abandon the ways of God. You get the idea that he used to be very godly and noble--Burton always looks either noble or once-noble no matter what part he plays. But when he repudiates his whole life after five minutes though, you have just put it down to the depravity...
...real source is Miami's Donnelly Advertising Co., the giant outdoor ad agency. Donnelly failed to sell the idea to Gillette, but when the agency included a slide of the billboard as comic relief in its sales pitch at last summer's outdoor advertising convention in St. Louis, the boys instantly recognized it as just the thing to stimulate what they like to call "billboard awareness." Donnelly to date has sold 1,500 of the 24-panel posters to billboard owners in all 50 states at $8.50 each...