Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends on a Saturday morning in March 1971 in the White House Situation Room, and we struggled to fashion at least a temporary bridge across the mutual incomprehension that was rending our society. Gently, they expressed their deep and passionate opposition to the war; but they had no idea how to end it. My problem was to translate inchoate ideas-however deeply held-into policy. Ours was the perpetually inconclusive dialogue between statesmen and prophets, between those who operate in time and through attainable stages and those who are concerned with truth and the eternal. I found it easier...
...rubber checks and had several times been accused of malpractice. Last week Brown appointed an avowed homosexual to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, exposing the Governor, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, to further criticism. And for all his impressive legal credentials, even Halvonik was not everyone's idea of an appellate judge. A jazz player who moved his piano into his Sacramento office in 1975, when he worked for the Governor, Halvonik, who sports a Pancho Villa mustache, had once before been caught with a marijuana cigarette, but on that occasion the charge was dropped...
...Guevara (Mandy Patinkin). Che dogs every step of Eva's checkered ascent through calculated boudoir encounters and forays into stage, films and radio un til she meets, seduces and marries Juan Perón (Bob Gunton) and comes to wield an awesome share of his dictatorial power. The idea of using Guevara as a moral commentator and social conscience is quintessentially farcical, but Patinkin pours Brechtian acid into the role...
Lashman has been saddled with the Medical Area Total Energy Plant--known to those who care as MATEP. Once upon a time, Harvard had a brilliant idea: build the largest co-generation plant in America to provide power for Harvard's medical schools and 13 other area institutions. Back then, they figured it would cost about $40 million. And they counted on large savings in oil that MATEP would pass on to its Harvard affiliates...
Boothby says that he hopes that people get interested in the idea and run for something besides physical fitness. "This will connect their endeavours with something outside of themselves," he said...