Word: brainstorm
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...coach's brainstorm is in many ways an ingenious one, since it requires a small amount of mobility from what is essentially a slow-footed squad, and since it makes maximum use of the team's strong corps of front-court...
...this idea first hit me," said Steve ("the thinking man's comic") Allen, "I got that certain instinctive chill. The hair on the back of my neck almost stood up. The idea was that good." Allen's brainstorm: a 19-minute "Meeting of the Minds" inserted in his hour-long TV variety show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker...