Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little to do with the magazine's first year, disapproved of much of its material, but liked the idea well enough to take over, although it will mean directing Scorpion from Chicago where he will be spending a year off. The first issues had too much social commentary ("you can get that any place") and literary criticism ("it's like hair creme -- greasy and it smells bad") for Kuttner's taste. His will be exclusively prose fiction and poetry...
...press conference at the Business School. Katzenbach said that the idea of withholding federal money "has been looked at" as a way of dealing with the Boston School Committee. The committee has refused to comply with the state's Racial Imbalance Law, and the state has consequently withheld educational aid from the city...
...also preserves masses of clippings and miscellaneous photographs, which he somehow manages to unearth when they fit an idea. Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog-which depicts the Moorhead, Miss., crossing of the Southern Railway and the old Yazoo City Line, colloquially known as "the Yellow Dog"-was inspired by a line from W. C. Handy's Yellow Dog Blues that Cloar had jotted down on a scrap of paper...
Firmer Stance. What does the future hold for the market? Some pessimists say that the average will plop into the low 700s and stay there for a long while; corollary to this theory is the idea that some time next year the U.S. economy will suffer a recession...
Biology says that the longer the nurturing period, the higher the species of animal. The quirks in that idea appeal to British-born Novelist Gavin Lambert. He first explored protracted puberty among starlets in Inside Daisy Clover, a barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes the upper-class British male, alternately pampered and scourged in nursery and public school. His hero, Sir Norman Lightwood, is the invincible innocent, a descendant of Paul Pennyfeather who goes unarmed in a world of "pimps and pitiless roughnecks...