Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objections to your pictures of starved cattle and people in India [March 24]: I think this is dandy logic. On the strength of it we could all forevermore be spared having to look at pictures of that old shack the Taj Mahal. After all, it gives such a distorted idea of everyday life in India. Or have I missed somebody's meaning...
...ropes, as many of the brightest workers, scientists and technocrats joined the exodus of 3,000,000 East Germans who voted with their feet and went Westward. Since then, 24,500 East Germans have managed to escape (137 were killed in the attempt), but most people have accepted the idea that they are trapped and decided to try and make the best of it. It was this Wall-inspired attitude that enabled Ulbricht to get down to the task of strengthening the economy and starting to nurture a separate national identity...
Wilson admits that he has been influenced by Mucha, Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, and "the expressionist idea of really putting it out there...
...Harvard pair conceived the idea of making a documentary film in December of 1964. Foundation grants and individual gifts, totaling $40,000, enabled them to rent a house in the Natchez ghetto, live as members of the Negro community, and make the film...
...spent his spare time while on a summer job inspecting telephone switchboards?McDonnell chanced upon an obscure book about psychic emanations: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by English Essayist Frederic W. H. Myers. It turned his interest abidingly toward the occult. "I was fascinated with the idea that this realm of the mind and soul and survival after bodily death ought to be susceptible to investigation through a scientific approach," says McDonnell. Rebuffed by one of his Princeton professors when he asked for help in such an inquiry, the eager student attended every séance he could...