Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enthused America, speaking through its Government, can make American democracy an article of export. The Christian concept of the dignity of man is the strongest revolutionary force in the world. But because we lack imagination or understanding, we have allowed the materialistic and brutal verbiage of Communism to gain a greater export currency than our own belief which springs from eternal sources...
...which can be applied to Irwin Shaw and Peter Viertel, to the management of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and to almost everybody production. Shaw and Viertel, who wrote "The Survivors," far from meaning harm, appear to have attempted to creste an allegory for our times, a dramatization of the concept that unreasonable hatred and stupidity make nations, as well as men, wipe each other out of existence. But the play itself adds up to little more than a somewhat melodramatic series of bare repetitions of this concept which, admirable as it may be in itself, requires something more than persistent...
Congress took over the problems of U.S. war strategy last week. As G.O.P. leaders gave defense bills the right of way, committees in both House and Senate began writing their concept of what the biggest peacetime military establishment in the nation's history should look like...
...political philosophy in the first place rejects the absolutes characteristic of the totalitarian Right and the totalitarian Left. It furthermore shuns that political technique intended "to transform one small clique of men into the State." But most crucial of the distinctions marking American-Russian hostility rests with the Madisonian concept disputed by Marx. Douglas elaborates...
Strongly influenced by the 16th Century mystic, Jakob Boehme,* Berdyaev made the cornerstone of his philosophy the concept of what he called "metaphysical freedom." He regarded creativity as man's highest expression of that freedom. Man cannot truly be redeemed, he thought, until he submerges even the problem of his own salvation in creative activity-artistic, intellectual, or in human relations...