Mr. Parker, usually the engine of ideas, felt stalled, and the musical just seemed to be drifting toward an Off Broadway run set for that summer, all three men said recently.
That is to say, America as a symbol of liberty, democracy and justice; America as an embodiment of the values of the Enlightenment; America as the New World's engine of ideas borne across the European continent by Napoleon's army after the Revolution of 1789.
They rose to the music, grabbed the ferocious engine of its ideas and presented something unique.
To combat this problem, the discovery engine combines thousands of ideas from brainstorming, social media, and robotics, runs them through a variety of analytic algorithms, before presenting them in a dynamic visualization format that allows companies to easily discover which ideas are important — and what they should be focusing their resources on.
But well beyond preserving the integrity of the collegiate diploma, as well as protecting higher education's real purpose as the engine of new knowledge and ideas and not simply a place to regurgitate all that is already known, higher education also has a large role to play in the moral formation of citizen leaders who can think and act consistently with truth and integrity.
Mr. Moynihan died yesterday at the age of 76, leaving his party and his nation with a rich legacy rooted in his own faith in the power of ideas as the engine of democracy.
The continent, once the engine and ideas generator of the whole world, will fall hopelessly behind the other major regional blocs.
This is nowhere more true than in the very engine of the Games: the idea of competition itself.
Cities have long been incubators and transmitters of ideas, and, correspondingly, engines of economic growth.
"There are a lot of great engine ideas and concepts out there, but the reality is that with the industry as it is, and the economy that we have, it is a lot easier to go in smaller incremental steps.
Like most of Mr. Jacobs's ideas, the move was a superficially controversial one that instead revealed an inner conservative, an embrace of ideas that's really an engine of growth.
