Word: conception
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Both Cleveland and Eisenhower, however, presided over what Nixon called a "simpler past." Whether the Cleveland concept will work in the complicated present will not be clear for many months, perhaps not until Jan. 20, 1973. By then, there may even be a fourth approach to the presidency, a distinctively Nixonian philosophy. The President has already surprised many people. "I knew, or thought I knew, Nixon in the 1950s," says Rossiter, whose The American Presidency has become a standard college text. "I thought I knew him in 1962; I thought I knew him during the last campaign...
With a Soviet SST and the Anglo-French Concorde already being successfully test-flown, what has delayed the American SST? Two years ago, the U.S. made the decision to build an SST. Later, Boeing, the contract winner, encountered major design problems: its radical swing-wing concept was an economic disaster. The engineers went back to their drawing boards and last fall came up with another SST, this time a fixed delta-wing titanium plane capable of cruising at a speed of 1,800 m.p.h. while carrying more than 250 passengers 4,000 miles...
...casual fancy, S. J. Perelman once concocted an actor of surpassing ego. "I see a fresh new concept of drama knocking at the door," he said. "A theatre without plays . . . devoid of scenery and untrammeled by actors...
Vidal is his own best act, and he does show off. He cannot defend homosexuality without name-dropping Apuleius, making sly references to the Spartans, and advising the reader to check his concept of masculinity against circuitous quotations from the Apocrypha (Il Maccabees 4: 7-15). Even in the midst of considering children's literature, the portentous generalization can tempt him: "In the last fifty years we have contributed relatively little in the way of new ideas of any sort. From radar to rocketry, we have had to rely on other societies" etc., etc. Sarcasm betrays him into rhetorical...
...next step on the road to this week's proposal came last month. Going through their regular list of UC faculty appointments, the Regents came across the name of Herbert Marcuse. Now there was a name that Reagan recognized. If there was any person more offensive to Reagan's concept of orderly campuses than Eldridge Cleaver, it would have to be Marcuse. For several months Reagan had fumed about Marcuse's role in fanning protest flames that the Regents' fire brigade was trying to put out. How can we ever stop these riots, Reagan would say, when we have that...