Word: concept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proposed Cures. On the whole, Kintner likes what he sees, has little patience with the various prescriptions that are being suggested to cure TV's ills. One proposal that Kintner & Co. disposed of convincingly is an industry-appointed TV "czar" with power to enforce balanced programing. "The concept," said Kintner last week, "is not workable for [television] any more than [for] the newspaper industry or the magazine industry." Kintner did not add the most plausible argument against the idea: the hard-lobbying broadcasters might hamstring a TV commissioner as easily as they have...
...Jacques Tati's sequel to his immensely successful Mr. Hulot's Holiday. The newer movie retains as its hero, Hulot, the man of zany good sense and good will pitted against a world that takes itself awfully seriously but happens to be insane. Last time, Hulot attacked the concept of the holiday; now he is after modernism...
...basic French foreign policy is, reputedly, one of grandeur, a reassertion of the historic role of France in world affairs. It is a simple compound, one part reality to five parts romantic memory of Napoleon and Louis XIV and four parts de Gaulle's concept of his personal destiny. In getting rid of the immobilism that characterized the Fourth Republic, de Gaulle and his government have picked up a generous share of political illusions, and chief among them is the grandeur upon which their diplomacy is based...
...False Concept. If, organizationally, the President's move was in the right direction, it also showed how many false moves had been made before. His order reversed his own decision of last year to let the Army keep its space mission and the Von Braun team, also heavily modified Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's order of last month that the Air Force would be responsible for space-rocket vehicles. Actually, many thoughtful Army officers were glad to be free of the costly distractions of space to concentrate on overdue modernization of equipment and tactics for atomic-war ground...
...organization untangling would ever get the space program going until the President abandoned the obsolescent concept that space can be divided into civilian and military sectors, hence can be organized by civilian and military agencies side by side. This concept developed logically enough when defense planners decreed that space projects should not be allowed to interfere with the military's urgent task of catching up on missile production. But today the U.S. missile program has gathered substantial momentum, while the Russians have demonstrated a firm intention to use space as a primary cold-war weapon...