Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phillips Brooks House has tried, and failed, to excite some Faculty interest in the Inner Belt. PBH's idea was to circulate a Faculty-student petition against the eight-lane highway and to call for a halt in planning until a major new transportation study for the metropolitan area had been completed...
...Commissioner of Education, he named former Scarsdale Schools Superintendent Harold Howe II, 48, a skillful administrator whose choice reflects Gardner's lifelong crusade for better education. The ultimate purpose of education can move this ascetic, unflappable man to evangelistic fervor. "The idea of individual fulfillment within a framework of moral purpose," he says, "must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession." What rankles him is the fact that so few educators seem to share his concern. Only a fraction of 1% of all the billions spent on education goes to research. In many American schools...
...rivalry through diplomacy and mercy. But such temperateness was strictly limited to social equals; Aristotle, who is credited with inventing the term "a just war," could apply it to military action "against men, who, though intended by nature to be governed, will not submit." The Romans took over the idea of a just war as an instrument of efficient administration, and Cicero laid down some pragmatic ground rules. Only states could wage war, he insisted, and only soldiers could fight them-a useful device to preclude revolution. Before one state could attack another, hostilities had to be formally declared, leaving...
That is not to say that all designers necessarily find the idea of kooky furniture appealing. "I have no sympathy for the youth cult," said Edward Wormley to Home Furnishings Daily. "Furniture can be fun, but it still must have dignity and integrity." And for those who agree, there is at least this consolation: emulating Detroit, the big manufacturers have each recently begun bringing out at least one stylistically new line annually. Wait until next year...
Essentially, All in the Family deals with the conflict between the American idea of individualism and the Irish idea of the solid family. The occasion for the conflict is the chaotic world of Massachusetts politics in the late 1950's and early 60's. In the 30's and 40's, Massachusetts politics were squalid, sordid, and petty--primarily used as path for personal advancement, much like politics in any other state. But Catholicism with its doctrine of the resourceful steward ("to whom much is given, much is expected") and Puritanism with its sense of mission (John Winthrop's words...