Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhat surprised to read the statement of Mr. William Steinberg (formerly Buffalo Bill) about quartets in residence in universities [Oct. 7]. It's sometimes difficult for a conductor to accept the idea that outstanding orchestra musicians feel they could be more constructive teaching and performing in the midst of a renowned school instead of being musically dictated to by the gentleman standing on the podium. A vacation it is not, but a relief...
...Illinois River in the very heartland of America, Peoria has for years been the butt of jokes, the gagman's tag for Nowheresville. "How come you got married?" "Well, I was booked into Peoria and it was raining." Today that humor is as stale as the idea of Peoria as a backwater of national life. The Peoria of 1966 welcomes more foreign visitors than just about any other U.S. city of its size (pop. 133,000), and sends its citizens abroad to range the world. The bartender at the Pere Marquette Hotel routinely makes change for pounds, francs...
...really a way of attacking this country for not being like Europe, or the Midwest for not being like New York. As a consequence of modern technology and higher standards of living, there has been an attenuation, a thinning out, of the American contrasts between experiences. This makes the idea of provincialism obsolete...
...Oldsmobile. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines after Pearl Harbor, the stage was set for another leap in the Marcos legend. Called to duty as an intelligence officer, 2nd Lieut. Marcos required only a few weeks to become a hero. His idea of intelligence duty was to prowl behind the Japanese lines?often in his personal Oldsmobile sedan?probing for weak spots. He found one on Bataan's Mount Natib: a Japanese military battery that was lobbing 70-mm. shells into U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright's beleaguered defenders. Marcos and three privates scouted the battery, trailing two bearded Japanese artillerymen...
...idea is only suggested as a trial run, the girls said, and should be subject to review after some undecided period of time...