Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several months ago the director of MacBird approached my gallery with the idea of using a 1961 painting of mine called Clown in Armor as a backdrop for his production of MacBird. I did not wish to be associated with this play and refused him my permission...
From Ford, he borrowed the idea of using communications satellites, if they prove economically feasible, in a public, noncommercial system; from Carnegie, he took the idea of strengthening regional program-production centers and local stations as a guarantee of diversity. "I am convinced," he said, "that a vital and self-sufficient noncommercial television system will not only instruct but inspire and uplift our people...
...favorites is that Fidel Castro, having unearthed a CIA plot to assassinate him, sent four teams of killers to the U.S.-one of them including Oswald-to get Kennedy in retaliation. Another, less incredible, conjecture holds that Shaw and others merely planted the seed of the assassination idea in Oswald; such encouragement would be enough to justify conspiracy charges under Louisiana...
Like any wise general, Harry Luce made sure that there would be no slackening of that effort in the event of his death. "I want everyone," he said, "to get used to the idea of what they call the Lucepapers without Luce." In 1960, corporate control of Time Inc.?in which he then held 17% of the outstanding stock?was transferred to Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell and President James A. Linen. When he retired as Editor in Chief, Luce appointed Hedley Donovan, former managing editor of FORTUNE, who for five years had been Editorial Director of Time...
...Camp Jackson that the idea for TIME was born. There Hadden and Luce, emerging from the sheltered and privileged enclaves of Hotchkiss and Yale, met the rank and file of America for the first time and discovered the huge gap between those who kept up with events and those who did not. That set them to thinking about getting news and knowledge to a wide variety of people. One night they took a long walk through the drill ground and the piny woods beyond, talking about "the paper" that they might some day found. As Luce later said: "I think...