Word: conception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the last spring's strike, the Mole came close to the concept of a revolutionary newspaper. It reported facts which it felt would clarify the issues, and by the nature of the information, move the populace toward militant action. Its publication of the stolen documents from University Hall sharpened the struggle. Although it did not report about the split within the Strike Committee between WSA and the New Left Caucus, the Mole successfully avoided becoming solely a propaganda tool. It provided news which could be obtained from no other source. Its factual accuracy helped to maintain its credibility...
...feeling, inspired by the prestige of science, that certain words contain implicit subjective judgments, and thus ought to be replaced with more "objective" terms. To speak of "morals" sounds both superior and arbitrary, as though the speaker were indirectly questioning those of the listener. By substituting "values," the concept is miraculously turned into a condition, like humidity or mass, that can be safely measured from a distance. To call someone "poor," in the modern way of thinking, is to speak pejoratively of his condition, while the substitution of "disadvantaged" or "underprivileged," indicates that poverty wasn't his fault. Indeed...
...Matter of Personality. What did not work was Knudsen's concept of how a Ford president should operate. Ford's young executives have always admired G.M.'s all-around management strength, but they were startled when a G.M. man was brought in to be their boss. Their dismay increased when they discovered that Knudsen, a gentlemanly but strong-willed executive, intended to run the company practically at the plant level. Instead of sitting in his office ruling on policy, he took to haunting the Ford design center, arriving there as early as 7:15 a.m. He ordered...
...change in the concept of the thesis from that of a small book to a series of papers, possibly on unrelated topics. The report also criticized professors for being "generally unhelpful" with theses. Such things as delays in returning thesis material were cited as examples of professorial negligence...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the age he lived in?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher, because his thoughts was merely a reflection of conditions around him colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the grounds that his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before...