Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking to a meeting sponsored by the local AVC chapter, Hartz said that a redefinition of the "whole concept of peace" is needed if war is ever to be averted...
This ringing declaration, formulated two years ago in Mexico City and agreed to by all 21 of the American republics, is the heart of the Act of Chapultepec. It has brought a new concept to hemispheric policy...
...psychoanalytic preoccupations. In connection with neuroticism they might look into the relationships between anxiety and the despair about which theologians have much to say. Theologians also have much to say about confidence and hope and the means of cultivating these good habits. ... In connection with Freud's capital concept of repression, which consists of the violent submergence of undesirable stimuli in the unconscious, they might look into its conscious counterpart, a defect of prudence which the classic moralists called inconsideratio...
...ideological sledgehammer. Nothing political, of course: mainly a muddy discussion of ends, means, and ought-we-to-do-its that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High junior. The point--that, like Joan, we may have to make small, bitter concessions in serving the greater concept--becomes clear to the heroine through a puzzling scene in which the deus ex machina descends with a thud to the stage...
Through the complex of unanswered dilemmas the basic reality of successful preliminary experiment nevertheless persists. General Education confidently stretches its wings and should shortly straighten up to fly right. Majority opinion declared the courses had lived up to expectations of the new concept; two thirds found more interest than elsewhere in the College; and half claimed greater worth for the time spent than that offered by any other courses. Substitution of essays for hour exams and quizzes won emphatic praise. Furthermore, the dstinctive, approach outlined for GE courses from the start has been upheld: that brief coverage of numerous topics...