Word: conception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trade magazine Publisher's Weekly, gives a highly useful perspective on the long-range trends beyond the weekly ups and downs, and also includes such items as dictionaries and cookbooks, which the weekly compilations omit. The volume shows how the paperback and population explosions have altered the bestseller concept. A really warm item in 1904 was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which so far has sold 1.4 million copies, nearly all of them in hard cover (it is still in print). Forever Amber has sold 1,652,837 hard-cover copies since it was published in 1944. Such once eminently...
...more subtle argument against the war is that it is not going to be won by force of arms. An unwinnable conflict, theologians point out, violates the traditional concept of the just war, in which the probability of accomplishing a moral goal must outweigh the violent means involved. Says Lutheran Pastor Richard Neuhaus of Brooklyn, a co-founder of Clergy and Laymen Concerned: "There is no legitimate proportionality between the credible goals of the war and the means being used to win it. The credible goals are weak and tenuous, and the means are evident in their harshness...
...Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw's classic, century-old definition, conspiracy is "a combination of two or more persons, by some concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some purpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means." The concept of criminal conspiracy is rooted deep in common law; its philosophical underpinning is the premise that two or more men working together are a greater danger to society than an individual plotting alone. Today conspiracy by itself is a crime under federal law and in virtually every state. Ordinarily...
...central concept behind the community protests was community development: the need to permit untrained black people to plan their own lives, and in that way acquire the experience necessary for getting better jobs...
...Harvard, the power to make decisions has been delegated by the Corporation to various entities within the University, e.g., the President, the Overseers, and the various faculties. To varying degrees, the concept of student power is applicable to all these decision-making "structures...