Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nicolae Ceausescu: "Nothing should be done to deepen the divergencies and increase the threat of a split." The Italian and North Korean delegations were equally outspoken in their opposition, while Yugoslavs, Poles, Cubans and North Vietnamese maintained a stony silence. The only big parties to endorse the idea were those of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and France...
Serious study of suicide has been hampered by the fear and loathing that society brings to the idea of self-destruction; an example is Mary Hemingway's initial insistence that her husband's death was accidental. Primitive tribes usually fear the suicide as a ghostly avenger. Pre-Christian Greeks tended to disapprove of it as an offense against the gods, whose property men were. But the Stoics and Epicureans, taking man as the measure of all things, condoned self-destruction as a blessed escape. Said Seneca: "Against all the injuries of life, I have the refuge of death...
...felt the book should break down into something intellectually reasonable, so you could see the connection between things," explains Julia. "The idea was to take French cooking out of cuckoo land and bring it down to where everybody is. You can't turn a sow's ear into veal
...Europeans are complaining about a preliminary list of 26 safety requirements, passed around by the U.S. Department of Commerce to give importers an idea of what the coming federal standards will be like. Britain's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has warned that for some automakers the new standards "could mean hardship, even disaster...
Even though the Europeans go along with most of Commerce's safety list, they find some items baffling, absurd or impractical. Britain's Society of Motor Manufacturers recoils at the idea of a uniform PRNDL sequence of automatic shift positions, points out that some makes have fancy variations, including "two D positions" and even "the sequence RN1234D." Germany's Porsche objects to having to prove the safety of its gas tanks in actual crash tests, "because with a production of only 50 cars a day, one car represents a tremendous value." Volkswagen fears that the famous beetle...