At face value, the innovation hub first conceived of five years ago, appears a promising, even urgent, idea in a country so rich in scientific brilliance but so poor at bringing it to market.
What he was thinking about back then is exactly the same question, the historic cliché, that good people like ourselves have been asking ever since, which is the exact number of enemies — whether soldiers and other combatants in battle, or families in their homes — it's O.K. to burn or blow up while in pursuit of some urgent idea of ours about peace or justice or safety.
Finding Dory (Disney, U) and Jason Bourne (Universal, 12) were hardly the most offensive rehashes of the season, but months on, they already feel like supersized footnotes – capably dotting i's and crossing t's on what has gone before, without bringing urgent new ideas to the table.
Zeus has not yet responded to the Finance Committee's urgent appeal for ideas about how to raise another billion drachmas for the unforeseen budget overruns.
And with that we are on the path that necessitates an urgent renaissance of ideas related to the individual" [34, p 84].
Much more urgent is the idea that TV doesn't really give you lasting happiness.
Either designers don't know how to relate their designs to the street so that those ideas feel urgent, or, more likely, they are tranquilized by the luxury brands they serve.
The archetypal Chicago intellectual — embodied by Ravelstein, the chain-smoking professor of political philosophy who appears in Saul Bellow's 2000 novel of the same name — has combined an interest in big ideas with urgent engagement in current affairs.
And each suggestion submitted can also be rated by other members to give companies an idea of which ideas are urgent, and which are simply nitpicks.
