Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teaching job and unleashed a flood of controversial writing that included novels, short stories, plays, essays and off-the-cuff journalism. Almost all of it has been a clinical, repetitious elaboration of his grim teaching: wretched man comes into this rotten world through no fault of his own. The concept of God, argues Sartre, is an irrational delusion. To find happiness, each man must act to free himself from the brutalities of his environment; but, awful paradox, he cannot act until he is free...
...Cozy Concept. For months, the JCS hopefully contended that the Communist conquest of China constituted no immediate threat to U.S. security in the Pacific; Japan was the U.S.'s bastion and it was safe in MacArthur's hands. MacArthur himself now blasted this cozy concept. In the north, the Russians had always been in position to attack the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido from Vladivostok and their bases in the Kurils. The southward plunge of Chinese Reds now threatened to give Russia domination of the China coast down to Shanghai...
...romantic song called "Mountain Greenery." It became their first hit. It was--and still is--a striking tune, and there is something about its rhythm and temp that is characteristic of the dance tunes of the Twenties. So when Rodgers wrote, for "Allegro," a number that spoofed the collegiate concept of dancing in the Twenties, he decided to use the music of "Mountain Greenery" as his theme. Consequently, one of last winter's more popular theatrical wisecracks said that "Mountain Greenery" was the best song in "Allegro...
...international authority should control both production and distribution. Germans can manage plants, but Germans should not decide what those plants produce. By preparing the way for German control of Europe's greatest industrial region, the governments of the United States and Britain have greatly damaged European unity, and the concept of a cooperative Atlantic community...
...main, the people had voted for no change in a social concept which had been pretty well formulated by Franklin Roosevelt in the years between 1933 and 1937. They had also voted against Republicanism. On the basis of still incomplete returns this week, Dewey in 1948 received but a scant 200,000 votes more than Herbert Hoover in 1928 (the last time the Republicans...