Word: conception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonpersons are waking up to the fact that in many circumstances welfare is a legal right, based on need and enforceable by due-process standards of law. The 1935 act essentially rejected the ancient "gratuity" concept of public assistance as a charitable handout given to the humbly grateful. And recently, in state and federal courts, decisions have begun to vindicate the rights of welfare beneficiaries...
...Rico, but he is happiest in the gardens of his mountain country estate 30 miles east of Rio. There he strolls among more than 300 varieties of philodendrons (one of them named by botanists the Philodendron burle marx) and specimens of bromelia. "It is obvious," he says, "that the concept of a garden goes beyond an esthetic composition. It also signifies the necessity of men to live intimately with nature...
...heady and passionate concept of the international socialist revolution is difficult for some men to give up. Isaac Deutscher is one of those who seem to have taken to it as others take to wine and women. He still carries a torch for the Russian Revolution as the guiding light of future world history. A Polish-born Communist, expelled from the party in 1932 for political deviation, Deutscher is now a Britain-based historian and widely considered one of the leading experts on Communism. His three-volume study of Trotsky (The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast...
During World War II, several medical schools adopted a similar timetable to turn out six-year or even 5 ½-year wonders. The big difference now, however, is that the new accelerated courses have no "crash" concept behind them. What they have done is lop off many of the nonscientific aspects of a professional education. Most of the courses utilize the summer months, provide about the same training as normal medical-school programs. "These programs are designed to let the bright young man go at his own pace," says Dr. Shevis Smyth of the Association of American Medical Colleges...
Form, order, institutions, and polity are treated in a section on "Forms and Order." The controlling concept is flexibility of institutional form for the sake of mission in the world. "The institutions of the people of God change and vary as their mission requires in different times and places...