Word: conception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ideally, every city should be a closed loop, like a space capsule in which astronauts reconstitute even their own waste. This concept is at the base of the federally aided "Experimental City" being planned by Geophysicist Athelstan Spilhaus, president of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, who dreams of solving the pollution problem by dispersing millions of Americans into brand-new cities limited to perhaps 250,000 people on 2,500 acres of now vacant land. The pilot city, to be built by a quasi-public corporation, will try everything from reusable buildings to underground factories and horizontal elevators to eliminate...
...highly and would like to contribute to the future growth of the college. But we are apprehensive that by giving money at this time we would be supporting certain policies which we found antithetical to our needs during our years at Radcliffe. These policies include financial priorities and the concept of the role of the student in college affairs...
...final explanation for undergraduates' lack of enthusiasm is what Professor Joseph Bower, Faculty Coordinator of the Harvard Business School Summer Internship Program this summer, calls the problem of the role of the businessman. This concept seems to encompass both the intellectual and societal hang-ups of undergraduates in regard to business. The role of the doctor or the role of the lawyer are academically and socially defined and accepted. Most undergraduates today neither understand nor accept the concept of the role of the businessman. It has for too long been ambiguous. The role of the professional manager...
...intellectual processes involved in his role? In what way does he function in, and personally contribute to, society? What good does he do, aside from manufacturing widgits and making everyone want a widgits of his own? How does he behave? What is expected of him? Until this concept of role has been better assimilated by undergraduates many will continue to shun business...
...Earl Morris, 59, president of the American Bar Association, echoed Griswold as he said: "Many today seem to be demanding for themselves the unlimited right to disobey law." But "an essential concomitant of civil disobedience is the actor's willingness to accept the punishment that follows." The philosophical "concept has been distorted in these times to justify violence and anarchy. What is reprehensible in these acts is not the end to be achieved, but the methods of achieving...