Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spending time with them is like sitting in on a meeting of the M.I.T. economics faculty, a kind of miniature world in which everyone has his own idiosyncrasies and idea-wrestling is the pastime. The conversation is by turns uproarious and serious. They may not finish one another's sentences, but they clearly can finish one another's thoughts. And there is tremendous camaraderie. "Let me tell you this about Alan's tennis game," jokes Summers, an occasional opponent on the court. "He is very good [pause] for his age." Says Greenspan, with a broad grin designed to mask what...
Mere prattle without practice, say the incensed Stratfordians, who form the vast mainstream. "The idea that you have to go to Oxford to be a great writer is snobbish," says Jonathan Bate, author of The Genius of Shakespeare. Bate points out that Shakespeare, as the son of a local merchant and town official, would almost certainly have attended the Stratford Free School. And Elizabethan grammar schools offered a formidable education in Latin, including oratory and letter writing in the style of characters from classical myth and history. Students also had to be able to expand and embellish on existing literary...
...folks at Traffic Gems, a service launched last fall, offer a novel alternative. For $10 a month, members receive in the mail a shiny car decal that lists their screen name and the address trafficgems.com The idea is that other people stuck in traffic may think you/your car look cool, jot down your screen name, then go home and send you a message. It may be an open invitation for stalkers, but it makes a point. "When you meet someone online, first you fall in love with your mind, then your senses get involved," says co-founder Bill Kostyan. "Traffic...
...Podhoretz had his number as a personality-poet camouflaging mediocrity with an outrageous epater-le-bourgeois program (insanity is sanity; drugs are sacramental; homosexuality is holy; normality is horror). Podhoretz considered Ginsberg's doctrine to be destructive antinomian nonsense, a species of fraud. He even entertained, but rejected, the idea that Ginsberg might have "willed himself" into homosexuality for the same reason that Robert Lowell converted to Catholicism--for the "material...
...billion establishing such treasures as the Yale Center for British Art and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. For decades, he helped run Washington's National Gallery of Art, which he founded in partnership with his father. Mellon insisted that his gifts not be named after his family. "The idea of power has never appealed to me," he said. "Privacy is the most valuable asset money...