Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Traditionally, one is assigned primary sources as illustrations . There is the unconscious assumption that the source has a meaning which the clever student divines if he knows how to pose the right questions . In one intellectual history program, for example, a course is given entitled "explication of text." The idea of reading primary sources naively, without previous formulation of questions, and with sloppy randomness, evokes horror in the typical academic mind...
Chaves said Sohn created the idea of "raudom selection inspection" that "cracked open the inspection impasse" in disarmament negotiations...
Hoffman said serious discussion of the national magazine, "an idea that we'd been kicking around the Castle for a number of years," began some 15 months ago. and that fund-raising commenced last Spring...
...think that as long as the over-all intent is there, inconsistency of style does not matter. A Brillo pad stuck on the same canvas as oils acceptable in painting as long as the original intent is conscious and planned, but this idea is still new in theatre...
...would probably never be caught and might at the moment be drinking still more whiskey and bragging to their friends about the incident. But if any of them happen to read this letter, I would only like to ask them, now that they are sober, if this is their idea of "freedom," of "law and order," and of "protection of private property." If so, an American version of Kristallnacht cannot be far away...