Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential golf carts. As Nixons and Johnsons shook hands all around, Francisco Ruano, resplendent in rich brown deerskin bolero and blue-and-silver sombrero, led his Guadalajara Boys mariachi of eight Mexican-American musicians in a fair approximation of Happy Birthday. The band was Nixon's own idea; he discovered it at El Adobe, a favorite restaurant in nearby San Juan Capistrano, and pronounced their sound "beautiful." After The Yellow Rose of Texas, Nixon exclaimed: "Now let's get that Happy Birthday really going!" With a flourishing downbeat, he shouted: "Go!" Bystanding aides and secretaries joined Lady Bird...
...novels, particularly The Tin Drum and Dog Years. Grass has also sought to prod Germans out of their complacency about the nation's Nazi past and materialistic present. Still, Grass downgrades his role as a social or political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of the nation is pure nonsense," he says. Others disagree. Professor Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz of Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support...
Bettelheim blames the malaise of the majority of student rebels on another oversimplified idea: the national insistence on putting high school graduates indiscriminately into the isolated academic atmosphere of traditional colleges and universities. Students feel "obsolete," he says, because "society keeps the next generation too long in a state of dependence, too long in terms of a sense of place that one has personally striven for and won. To be adolescent means that one has reached (and even passed) the age of puberty, but must nevertheless postpone full adulthood till long beyond what any other period in history has ever...
...Philologist Vyacheslav Zaitsev of the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences has not only proposed the theory that Christ was a cosmonaut but also that the star of Bethlehem was his rocket A being from a higher civilization ("My Kingdom is not of this world"), Christ came to bring advanced social ideas of love, charity and democracy to a slave-society world. He was immune to the human death of crucifixion, and "ascended into heaven" after promising to come back. The idea of Christ as a cosmonaut did not bother Izvestia, but Christ as a democrat...
...call "the apostolate by letter," spend much time answering letters from people seeking advice and consolation. Thus the changes suggested by the Vatican had been anticipated by the Dachau Carmelites. Such changes, says Mother Gemma, "are based on the need to intensify the impact, yet to leave the basic idea untouched." Foremost is the contemplative's devotion to a life of prayer-and at Dachau especially, that goal does not seem inappropriate for the 20th century...