Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Voice in the Land. Politics fascinates Galbraith, and he is somewhat intrigued with the idea of running for the governorship of Massachusetts. But his sharp wit, irrepressible candor and donnish mien would be fatal handicaps at the polls. As it is, there are many who think that he has already spread himself too thin. "The peril with becoming a Voice in the Land," says Columbia Economist Louis Hacker, a friendly critic, "is that you are expected to be knowledgeable in every subject. Galbraith has no right to be pontifical on things like Viet...
...years ago New York tried to replace Wicker with Assistant Managing Editor Harrison Salisbury, only to have National Political Correspondent David Broder resign. Broder accused New York of "a parochialism of outlook," "faulty and sometimes bizarre judgments," "endless bureaucratic frustrations in the New York office." The Salisbury idea was dropped-temporarily. Eight months ago, the paper hired James Greenfield, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (and onetime TIME correspondent) who had resigned in 1966 as an assistant vice president of Continental Airlines. Greenfield was promised a "major job," and in due course Managing Editor Daniel and Assistant...
...idea worked so well that newspapers in 28 U.S. cities are now operating under some form of the plan, and others are considering it. Or at least they were. In Tucson, Ariz., Federal District Court Judge James A. Walsh has just called a halt to such newspaper combinations by ordering a complete divorce of mutual ownership, advertising, and circulation departments between the city's morning and afternoon papers...
What resulted was sheer anarchy. For the first general session of the four-day conference at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, the editors found 500 chairs arranged in a circle, with 17 microphones placed at intervals. The idea was that anyone could speak whenever he felt like it. Those who felt most like it were hippie citizens of "Drop City," Colo., decked out in dungarees, headbands and feathers. "If I heard someone say once he was 'doing his thing,' I heard it a hundred times," reports Charles DeCarlo, director of automation research for IBM. Along with Buckminster Fuller...
...Japan's best-known writer of "Abomb" literature (Town of Corpses, Human Rags), depreciated her work and herself with such statements as "Do I have the right to imagination? Can what I say about the dead ever be authentic?" A Japanese professor of English expressed the same idea with lines from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets: "They can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living...