Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats most Democrats? ("If you get any more forward than you are," Hubert Humphrey once kidded him, "you'll be ahead of the Democratic Party.") To the brand of Republican who keeps the conservative faith between elections with readings from Robert Taft and denunciations of Lyndon Johnson, the idea is anathema...
...climbs the peak, but the effort of getting there is important too; the vision is not all, and manuals of contemplation often advise against paying too much attention to "beauty." Indeed the Christian concept of grace-never earned, never under man's control-seems to nullify the idea that a man can attain a mystical experience by taking a pill. Psychedelic mystics tend to look toward the Eastern religions, in which, as one puts it, "you rap [have rapport] with the world; you rap with dogs and trees and everything makes sense...
...Exulted a Social Democratic strategist: "Brandt has given the party an issue." In fact, East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht gave the Social Democrats the issue by offering to start the dialogue in the first place. Social Democratic Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner persuaded Brandt, who was cool to the idea at first, to accept. Since then, Brandt has made the cause his own. He conducted the negotiations, indeed decided to lead the debate himself, dramatically announcing that he would even resign his office as mayor and go simply in his nongovernmental capacity as leader of his party if protocol demanded...
Downhill Push. Gathering shortly before 10 p.m., the two exchanged warm abrazos, then sat down and talked for two hours. Balaguer repeated his campaign proposal for a "government of unity" formed from both parties. Bosch promised to push the idea among his followers, who account for most of the young, trained technicians and planners in the country...
Student protest was far from the only topic on commencement speakers' minds, and for every dose of Nytol administered by a dull orator, someone else delivered No Doz in the form of a fresh phrase or a sprightly idea. Some of the best...