Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moss and grass. Concluded the critic for the London Times, trying very hard to be broad-minded about it all: "The visual arts today are a kind of brothel of the intellect, and nobody can write a report on a brothel while primly standing outside the door. The idea that he knows precisely what art is, and what it is not, is, it seems to me, the only one which the conscientious art critic cannot afford to give a hearing...
...idea that the bar is responsible for the financial misdeeds of its members originated in New Zealand in 1929 and soon spread to Europe. The concept did not reach the U.S., home of the richest lawyers on earth, until 1959, when the Vermont Bar Association put up the money to start a clients' security fund. About the same time, the American Bar Association organized a committee "to assist and encourage" similar funds in the other states. The current committee chairman, Attorney Karl C. Williams of Rockford, Ill., reports that four newcomers-Missouri, Maryland, Michigan, Florida-have joined...
...funds themselves vary widely: the Alaska bar association pays for insurance policies that cover mistreated clients, in Maryland annual security-fund payments by lawyers are required by the state as a prerequisite to practice. Everywhere the basic idea is to give clients some recompense for misconduct by their lawyers. A client who thinks he has been cheated must first complain to the state or local bar association, which then begins an investigation that may well end in suspension or disbarment. After that, the client files a claim with the fund...
...Ivory Coast import tariffs in return for increased U.S. purchases of Ivorian products. He was also casting about for increased U.S. capital investment in the Ivory Coast. From a U.S. viewpoint, the generous "tax holidays" the Ivory Coast is willing to grant in return for investments make the idea attractive. But there is an Ivorian benefit too: every new U.S. investor makes Houphouet-Boigny a little more independent of his French advisers...
...also leaves behind him the Law, takes off in a ramshackle, horse-drawn contraption for the future. He has shed everything but Spinoza, whom he had read by night in his ratty hut, and from whom he gleaned the notion that man is without history, God merely an idea in the mind of man, and man perhaps an idea in the mind...