Lentils are traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve in Italy, their shape reminiscent of coins, the idea being the more you eat, the more prosperous a year you'll have.
"I noted the irony of a Republican idea being the source of Republican opposition," said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal research group, who served in the Obama administration and as the policy director for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign in 2008.
Though Beau Brummell would get his cravat in a knot at the idea being the poster boy for male frippery - he actually advocated a restrained, gentlemanly glamour - he has become the poster boy for flamboyant dressing and a life devoted to aesthetics.
Twain (who was an inventor as well as a writer -- his hottest idea being the scrapbook, which he patented in 1873) might have embraced a patent that was issued last month to RichFX, a company that make 3-D video graphics.
The idea being the user gets to spec out their own smartwatch requirements.
From scholastic sources, Descartes was able to construct a theory of ideas according to which to know something is to have an idea of it, the idea being the very thing known in so far as it is known.
