Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S 43 years of publication, no story has been approached with more deliberation than this week's cover treatment of the contemporary concepts of God. The project was under consideration by the editors for nearly a year. What first brought the idea into the continuing discussions of possible cover subjects was the visibly growing concern among theologians about God and the secularized world of the mid-1960s. It was given impetus by the emergence of the "God is dead" group of theologians (TIME, Oct. 22), and the stir they created...
After months of searching for a work of art suggesting a contemporary idea of God, the editors came to the conclusion that no appropriate representation could be found. In designing the first TIME cover ever to use only words, they decided that the ferment in modern theology was best suggested by the startling question hurled at a baffled world by the new theologians...
...glands." Though few got anywhere at first, many of Humphrey's proposals later became law, usually under other men's names. Besides urging a medicare program he fought for federal aid to education, proposed the Peace Corps four years before the Kennedy Administration embraced the idea, and recommended a youth conservation corps along the lines of the poverty program's Job Corps. Humphrey's successful appeals to send U.S. farm surpluses to India and Pakistan were the precursors of the Food-for-Peace program, which now represents 45% of all U.S. nonmilitary foreign...
Alleviating these sinister superlatives is an exciting idea: it is possible not only to prevent a large number of accidents, but also to immunize passengers against trauma and grave injury when accidents do occur. With effort and purpose, the nation could cut the traffic toll almost as sharply and effectively as it did smallpox and polio. In dozens of laboratories in Detroit, and on campuses from Harvard to U.C.L.A., engineers, statisticians, highway designers, and psychologists are working toward the goal of "delethalization...
...Scenarist David Mercer from his own BBC television play, tells how an unmanageable, eccentric young painter is destroyed by his love for his mother, Karl Marx, King Kong, and a sleek London socialite named Leonie. Leonie is Morgan's wife, but she has just divorced him. His idea of wooing her back is to put a skeleton in her bed or to wire her boudoir with shattering hi-fi sound effects, hoping that her lover and husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie's car, nearly blows her mother to smithereens, finally has the poor...