Word: conception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uses of power. A onetime Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Columbia, he is an admirer of Elijah Jordan, an obscure American philosopher who argued that institutions, not individuals, mold a society's values. Shanker says he drifted toward the U.F.T. because it is an institution with "a power concept...
...carry an extra male or Y chromosome in their body cells tend to be criminally violent. Yet, increasing evidence supports the theory that such men are overaggressive "supermales" inclined toward mayhem (TIME, May 3). This month attorneys in two widely separated cases made courtroom history by introducing the disputed concept in defense of two accused killers...
...harps would be too much of a fantasia for the modern viewer. Instead, Marguerite gains redemption by accepting the last rites from a priest just before the noose is placed over her head. It gives the ending a biting irony that fits in perfectly with Corsaro's overall concept, and most of those present agreed with Soprano Sills that the director had justified his radical ideas. Said Sills: "If you can convince someone that an old chestnut like Faust is real drama then that's living theater...
...frontier had also made Americans ruthless and violent and that many of the facts on which Turner based his theory did not check out. (For example, frontier settlers, who Turner insisted always wanted to broaden the vote, in fact often lagged behind their urban neighbors.) Turner's creative concept had caught the imagination, not merely of historians and students who revered him but of the people as well. It still does-witness Barry Goldwater's appeal in 1964 to the nostalgic hope of returning to the simple virtues of the American frontier...
...especially since a "resort to reason" is continually used to justify existing conditions, exhort others to be practical, etc. Frankly, I have no use whatsoever for practicality and reason unless they are subordinated to basic human needs. Otherwise, reason is nothing more than oppression (compare the misuse of this concept with the equally distorted "free" in the mythical "free world...