Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dozen-or a Hundred. Johnson's most ambitious idea would create a "demonstration cities program" to be administered by the new Housing and Urban Development Department. Under this scheme, a city applying for federal aid would select a single blighted neighborhood and submit an overall plan for its rejuvenation. The project would include housing for different income groups and the public health, education, recreation, welfare and transportation services necessary to "change the total environment...
...wife?" -presumably on the theory that togetherness begins along the trail. German scholars account for the national wanderlust with learned references to Goethe and the 19th century romantics, who originally glorified nature and the nomadic as a protest against the industrial revolution. By the turn of the century, the idea had captured the imagination of thousands of students, who, in groups known as Wandervogel (wandering birds), hiked, camped, sang folk songs and danced folk dances around bonfires...
...Prime Minister's first impulse was to fly to Kerala at once, hoping to calm the crowds as she had done in Madras during last year's language riots. But her advisers persuaded her to give up the idea as too dangerous. Instead, she ordered half the cut to be reinstated, increasing the daily rice ration to about 5 oz. per person. That seemed to satisfy most Keralians, but it could be no more than a temporary solution. Unless fresh supplies can be found, it might well be necessary to cut the ration again...
...very idea of the Charles Playhouse staging Brecht's magnum opus, Galileo, might draw a gasp of astonishment. The play requires elaborate production, many large and varied sets, a cast of fifty; and the script makes enormous demands of the actors. But with the help of Tony van Bridge, a fine Shakespearean actor imported from Canada to play Galileo, the Charles production remains competent throughout and occasionally flashes through to brilliance...
...states, in private business...the wisdom of longer terms for senior officials has come steadily to be recognized. State after State has adopted a four-year gubernatorial term." It is perhaps too obvious to suggest the irrelevance of this argument. A four-year gubernatorial term is indeed a progressive idea; but almost all these states retain two-year terms for their legislators for equally valid reasons. It is also impossible to follow the President's contention that better men will be attracted into government by a four-year term; on the contrary, many districts may begin electing political hacks...