Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meaning provides a serious critic with the motivation for analysis. When he sees a movie or reads a book it moves him, it gives him an idea--it means something to him, emotionally or intellectually. The real problem is "Why and how does it mean what is does?" This curiousity is aroused by the recognition of meaning. Meaning is whatever makes a book worth reading; Miss Sontag, true to form, finds few books worth her time...
...principal architect of the expansionary and prosperity producing economic policies of the past five years expressed a hope that America, which "accepted the idea of tax cut to close a deflationary gap," would understand tax increases to cool off an overheating economy, to close an "inflationary gap growing out of Vietnam...
...idea for Ramsey's committee grew out of the recommendation of a group of scientists who met at NASA's request last summer to discuss the problems involved in long-range space projects...
...fascinating to note how this cultural isolation is still reinforced by the Chinese writing system. Because it uses ideographic characters, it can not easily take in foreign words by sound but only by representing the foreign ideas in Chinese characters, yet the Chinese characters have their own meaning already. Our current research finds that foreign ideas have come into Chinese most easily when the Chinese have already had the same general idea. The writing system makes for continuity and inertia in Chinese ways. Unlike Japan, Korea, or Vietnam, who all had a phonetic writing system combined with Chinese characters...
...real, efforts of writing to Dean Monro, telling him of your choice and your reasons for it. Your letter will be a basis for assignment if it shows a "substantial reason" for your choice. "Substantial" obviously must remain a relative term until the Dean has at least some idea of how many letters he will receive. If he receives very few, he may well accept them all; if, on the other hand, he receives a great many, it will obviously be necessary for him to disregard a high proportion in order that the desired distribution may be achieved...