Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They found Svetlana a receptive, if innocent, child. She had never had a bank account, had no idea that she would need a lawyer to protect her interests. All she hoped for from her manuscript was enough money to buy a car and a dog-a "gypsy" dog, she said, like her. Returning to New York, Greenbaum had no trouble landing her a contract with Harper & Row that would give her much more than car and dog: her book will be published in October, after serialization in LIFE and the New York Times, and Svetlana plans to donate some...
...After weeks of soaking and washing hide in various chemicals, including enzymes, to remove the linkage tails, Dr. Nishihara pours collagen into thin sheets resembling cellophane. The resulting membrane makes fine, easily digestible sausage casing. It also gave the Rogosin Labs' Dr. Rubin and Dr. Kurt Stenzel an idea for its first medical application-use in the artificial kidney, which has a filter membrane of sausage-casing cellophane. In laboratory glassware the collagen membrane has already done a better filtering job than cellophane; specially prepared collagen sheets will now be tested in artificial kidneys for animals in the laboratory...
...conclusion?" As for columnists, "I wonder if they would be so lavishly used if they were not dirt cheap; if it was not possible for an editor or a publisher to obtain for a song so much copy of such high respectability?" Many columnists "conceal an idea the size of a pea in a stack of dry straw. Does nobody discipline them? Does nobody make them rewrite or throw a column away? Are they sacred cows that are allowed to wander unmolested through your pages...
...took Héreil seven years to round up enough backing to finance his idea. At first, corporate executives guardedly asked who else was involved. That resistance ended only after an American expatriate millionairess named Isabelle Kemp chipped in the first $80,000. Finally, Héreil recruited a multinational team of educators...
...more: astonishing erudition, an edgy style, the wound of Jewishness and a bow of courage. He speaks four languages. He began publishing with two commanding achievements: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1959) and The Death of Tragedy (1961). Now he has found the absolute essential for a critic: a commanding idea. That idea is the breakdown of language. As he puts it, the "syntheses of understanding which made common speech possible no longer work." Today, Steiner notes, vast domains of meaning are ruled by nonverbal languages such as mathematics or symbolic logic; those who live beyond the veil of science...