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Word: concept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intellect. When she first met Jean-Paul Sartre, he was a fellow student at the Sorbonne. "Except when he's asleep. Sartre thinks all the time!" a friend told Simone. Petrified, she entered Sartre's lair for a day-long talkathon on her metaphysical treatise. The Concept in Leibnitz. Simone confided to her diary, "He's a marvelous trainer of intellects." Before long, they were playing pinball machines together, going to un-adult westerns, and scaling the roofs over the student dens, with the great intellect-trainer booming out Ol' Man River in a beery baritone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birth of a Beaver | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the Questionnaire | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...think the concept of the national state has become so dangerously anachronistic that the U.S. should take the risks involved in surrendering some of her sovereignty, in a serious attempt at achieving a strong international federation or world government? 136 yes; 136 no; 30 indifferent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the Questionnaire | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...look equally askance at the theist and the atheist who both say more than they could possibly know. This is reflected in the factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena" is the reason given more than any other, and of the three factors vying for second place, two are equally epistemic. "philosophical considerations, such as logical refutations of theoretical proofs of the existence of God" and "the irreconcilability of a literal interpretation...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...faced strong opposition against variable annuities from top-ranking Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the New York Stock Exchange and mutual funds. They charged that the new policies will change the traditional insurance concept of providing a fixed return on investments. and will put insurance companies in the securities business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Hedge Against Inflation | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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