Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thaler considers the ONR an ideal place for an idea man. "There are so many things going on there," he explains, "and you can find out about them just by walking down the corridor. It stimulates your thinking along oddball lines and keeps you from getting in a rut." The best example of that occurred two years ago, when he read a couple of published papers-one on the backscatter phenomenon, the other on ionized gases-and saw a method of connecting the two subjects that no one had seen before. The result was Project Tepee...
...environment, the Eastern woodland, and to the border of another environment, the Great Plains. The Texas Rangers were called into existence primarily to defend the settlements against Indians on horseback. While the conflict between the Rangers and the Comanches was at its height, Samuel Colt invented the revolver, the ideal weapon for a man on horseback...
Stuart Atkins, professor of German here at Harvard, discussed "Friedrich Schiller and Ideal Drama," in the final lecture of the Thursday afternoon series last week. He explained the nature of the German dramatist's idealistic philosophy...
Atkins also pointed out that Schiller was a "modern" poet since he knew the abyss between the real and the ideal could not be bridged. Schiller felt all art was merely a representation of idealism and should not be confused with real history. Action alone, not moral sentiment, determined drama...
...working life, Harold Churchill figured that the way to compete was to produce an "ideal" small car, but it took him many years to do it. He got into Studebaker 33 years ago as a half-trained engineer (two years at Western Michigan University), gained a name as "the guy who did everything." He was one of the three men who engineered the "economy" '39 Champion (priced as low as $675). During the war he began turning out the famed tanklike Weasel for the U.S. just 50 days after the company got the order. He filed more than...