Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost nearly 100 seats in the new Parliament, coming in with a majority of only 24, v. its previous 123, in the 521-seat body. Indira Gandhi reacted philosophically. "We have proved to the world that we have a fair and free election," she said. "That is the whole idea of having a democracy...
...their citizens, the legal concept prevailed that all Germans, regardless of whether they lived in West or East Germany, shared the same nationality. East Germany's own 1949 constitution endorsed that concept, and West Germany still maintains it. But Ulbricht's new law puts to death that idea in his so-called German Democratic Republic. From now on, a citizen of the G.D.R. is only that; he no longer shares a common nationality with his brothers in West Germany. Behind the law, of course, is Ulbricht's aim to split the Germanys so far apart that...
...written consent. Photographing her is another matter. Getting a nonprofessional model, who has never before posed, in the right mood can take a photographer one whole day, or several. And all the while the photographer must keep in mind Art Director Paul's concept of the Playboy nude. "The idea," he says, "is to think clean...
...introduction of movable print in the 15th century, turned mankind into the alphas and omegas of a giant cultural alphabet soup. The "seamless" and communal thought processes of tribal, preliterate man were fragmented; perception itself took on the rigid, abecedarian character of writing. Letters led to the "idea," which required structure-beginning, middle, end-and forced the writer or reader out of immediate experience and into an abstracted, objective remove from "group reality." According to McLuhan, the advent of "electrical technology"-radio and records, television and telephones-has changed all that. Man today is returning, through the vacuum tube...
...message of Marat / Sade seems to be that bourgeois society is a madhouse, and anybody who lives in it must be out of his mind. In the talented hands of Weiss and Brook, there is dramatic power in an idea whose time has passed...