Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second assumption is that the Houses are so much alike that no one will suffer from living in one and not another. This is a reasonable idea, since any House is large and diverse enough to contain something for everyone's tastes. Chalmers believes that any student can be content in any House if he lives in it for a few months, even a House he might not have considered if he were forced to rank his first three choices. But it is also true that there are significant differences among the Houses, even if the differences are only reflections...
...intellectual and philosophical, not merely sensual. Nonstudent Richard Thome, 29, a Negro who heads an off-campus East Bay Sexual Freedom League, argues that "man will only become free when he can overcome his own guilt and when society stops trying to manage his sex life for him." His idea of freedom is parties in which individuals can engage in any sexual act "that doesn't impose on the desire of other people...
...idea of a functioning façade -one that expresses interior spaces-is not a freshly minted product. Le Corbusier, in his last buildings, was jutting monks' cells out into space, making air funnels into sculpturesque "light cannons." Britain's "New Brutalists" have made sinewy decoration out of external electrical conduits. Philadelphia Architect Louis Kahn has made feudal towers out of air intake and exhaust stacks. Today's architects, in making virtues out of plain necessities, may yet learn how to rival the medieval master masons who turned water spouts into sculpted gargoyles...
Judging from the way they have been talking, it seems that a lot of Protestant ministers consider the local church as obsolete as the village well. Now, however, there is new vitality in many parishes. Its source: the idea of the servant church. At some cost to formal worship, usually quite candidly acknowledged, hundreds of churches are turning more and more to work in the world...
...seven-day-a-week church, St. Stephen's sponsors a preschool nursery, an emergency food bank and clothing center, a men's club that works for better relations with the police, an after-school tutoring program, a young adults' coffeehouse. Another idea is a club where periodic dialogues take place between "the losers"-neighborhood down-and-outers-and "the thrivers," a group of more affluent parishioners...