Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Psychiatrist Seliger has been hammering away at one basic concept: moderate drinking is impossible for an alcoholic; he can no more handle liquor than a diabetic can handle sugar. The idea that he can get away with a small glass of wine, or even a beer, is sheer folly...
...political realist and a shrewd observer of trends, said: "I have an uneasy feeling that the belief is spreading that people are not capable of governing themselves; that the problems today are so complex that the citizens at large must of necessity be detached from their own difficulties. The concept of the political elite is growing...
...reasonably, but the people around the table with him paid him little heed. As his troubles piled around him like cars in a hopeless traffic jam, he got little help from the people, none from Congress -e.g., in such matters as the inequalities of the Wagner Act. Perhaps the concept of the political elite was growing. In Washington one Government labor adviser said: "The only solution to the coal strike is federal seizure, and then let the Government hand the miners and operators a contract." Other extremists, including Socialists with an eye to the future, proposed nationalization of the mines...
Nurnberg's impresarios had used simpler furnishings, relied on the majesty of the concept to set the tone. The German production had a touch of Wagner - elaborate vaunting of guilt, protestations of heroic innocence. Tokyo's had the flavor of Gilbert & Sullivan...
...understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions of his times are intolerable. finding that the times are out of joint, Wilson has, like Hawthorne, discovered in the Puritan method of allegory, with its abstract concept of Evil, the only possible vehicle for his story...