Word: conception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stockholder of the Mart, a structure built precisely according to his specifications. In the case of the new Regency Hyatt House (TIME, June 2), Portman formed a development corporation that gave him design and financial control right from the start. As a result, he was able to demonstrate his concept of "exploded space," by which he means dramatizing the flow and interpenetration of space from one area to the next. In Hyatt House, the elevated cocktail lounge is defined within the great interior court by an umbrella-like cover suspended from the ceiling; the man in the bar can still...
...program nearly collapsed in its first year. Restive students, as well as some of the staff, revolted at the tough regimen and Tussman's rigid concept of a meaningful curriculum. Demanding the right to shape courses to their own interests, some students pleaded for an emphasis on Eastern rather than Western culture. Tussman acidly answered that a student cannot "pick up the wisdom of a foreign culture if he doesn't understand his own." Many of the students took to introspection with drugs, turned up in class turned on-which infuriated Tussman, who feared his project could...
...concept of government service does not exist in Haiti, nor has it ever been a part of Haitian history. Since the early 19th century--when Henri Christophe, the country's first black ruler, drove 20,000 slaves to their deaths in the construction of his massive fortress, the Citadel, high in the mountains over Cap Haitien--the government has existed for its own benefit. It simply does not do things for the people. It does not build highways or schools or hospitals; it does not try to improve agricultural methods or encourage industry; it does not give care...
Israel said he hopes to pattern the community on Skinner's concept of "behavioral modification through positive re-inforcement"--that is, a system of rewards for desirable behavior. The group will develop its own housing, and will offer members cooperative cooking, child care and other services...
...client have become increasingly distasteful. Most important of all has been the growing obviousness of the inequities that were being wrought. Says New York Judge Samuel Hofstadter: "Many deserving women get too little, and others less deserving get too much." To him, guilt is a clearly outmoded concept in divorce. Besides, he points out, "in probably 90% of all cases, neither spouse is at fault, or both may be to some degree...