Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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ALONG with decorations comes the institution of Secret Santa. Holiday gift-giving in the dorms is a great idea. But give a campus-wide institution a Christmas-related name and you're asking for trouble...
...idea is that you can't break in with these people," he says of the new Harvard party crowd. "Before you could go and talk to anyone. They stick to themselves and they're taking it over for themselves. They definitely snub the regulars and don't want to deal with them," says Stowers, a native of Las Vegas...
Like Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo, this nonsensical play derides those who use the idea of "science" for commercial exploitation. Despondent because people no longer accept any gifts, Santa Claus (Joel Rainey) turns to Death (Ian Lithgow) for advice. Death proposes that Santa find another line of work--namely, selling knowledge. He suggests that Claus use the buzzword "scientific" to peddle his non-existent wares. "Why say fantastic when you mean scientific?" Death asks. Soon he has Santa selling stock in a "wheel mine." The plot becomes even more convoluted after this. Death and Santa exchange outfits...
...Kinko's incident is more complex, because it is not just an issue of printing an idea, but whether someone must help print an idea he finds objectionable. In photocopying, an organization's right to disseminate its opinions conflicts with an individual employee's right to not participate in that dissemination. The individual's principled refusal to assist, in turn, hinders the organization's expression of its ideas...
...naively expected that interviewing for medical school would be a cross between the PBS science series "Nova" and the Phil Donahue show. I had no idea I was to make a special appearance on the "Twilight Zone...