Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third name there that Marion Javits kept yelling at her Jack to talk to before he went to Viet Nam. I think if you would call Marion Javits she would tell it to you. I think you ought to print the third name, too. Marion Javits' idea of whom he should see before going to Viet Nam was Actor Hugh O'Brian and Columnist Jimmy Breslin! and Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce! Beautiful. Let's be complete now. It doesn't hurt being complete. All your guy has got to do is type three more words...
...performance as "a total relapse into the positions of the cold war." Brandt was still determined to pursue open East-West discussion on questions of reunification. In fact, his Social Democrats were already toying with a compromise scheme to replace the speakers' exchange: revival of an old idea to invite East German politicians to speak in a televised panel discussion on West German...
Contemporary dramatic art is not only profoundly pessimistic but radically new in form. The well-made play with a beginning, a middle and an end is a thing of the past. It presupposes the leisure time of a leisure class, the idea of steady evolutionary progress and the information speed, as Marshall McLuhan has pointed out, of a railway system. Great Expectations epitomizes a 19th century mood, just as No exit reflects a 20th century mood. The well-made play assumes that everything is a problem capable of solution, as in a detective story...
Similar group discussions among concerned Christians can be found all across the U.S. these days, as part of an interfaith experiment in grass-roots ecumenism called "livingroom dialogues." The idea of spiritual conversations by laymen, without the inhibiting presence of a priest or minister, was thought up by Paulist Father William B. Greenspun, who developed the program with the help of the Rev. William A. Norgren, the Episcopal director of the National Council of Churches' Faith and Order Department...
...Idea of Conscience. The Protestants and Catholics found much to admire in each other's religious traditions. Episcopalian Herb Elliott, an engineer at the Boeing Co., liked the Catholic emphasis on attending services every Sunday; Kay Zupan, a convert to Catholicism, approved the Protestant notion of individual responsibility in spiritual matters. "Your idea of conscience is something that appeals very much to me," she told the Protestant members of the group...