Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea persisted to the threshold of modern times that the monarch was a divine personage with magic powers, including the gift of healing by touch. Belief in the king's divine curative powers vanished as surely as belief in the king's divine right to rule-at least in the West. Today's monarchs can be roughly divided into three types: Europe's chairman-of-the-board king, who presides over his country but is not its chief executive officer; the tribal king of Africa and the Middle East, who most of the time still really...
Mixing up Beatles and classics is not an original idea any more, but the Leverett House Opera Society manages to bring it off as though they invented...
...vote was a disgrace," Stanley Hoffmann, Professor of Government and one of the sponsors of the draft resolution, said yesterday. "A Faculty that votes against the idea of discussing an idea is a strange bird indeed...
...future of the draft resolution was unclear yesterday. There appeared to be no strong movement to request a special meeting -- though the idea had been considered a possibility -- and the resolution's sponsors were unsure about what would happen at the regular meeting in January...
...riot, which broke out when Negro James Meredith enrolled in previously segregated Ole Miss, shook the college to its foundations. Mississippians suddenly had to get used to the idea of integration at the "white folks school." national attention forced the University out of its comfortable regionalism. Political issues became paramount: white Mississippians had to choose between moderation and a last-ditch defense of the state's traditions...