Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Gorer's chapters range through opinions on children ("the concept of being a sissy is a key concept for the understanding of American character"); jobs ("the typical patterns of the relationship between American employers and employees can be viewed as stemming from a shared abhorrence of the idea of one man being in overt authority over an equal"); plumbing ("the symbolic and patriotic value of these adjuncts to sanitary and comfortable living has become so great that Americans in foreign countries tend to esteem these alien societies in direct proportion to the number and availability of these amenities...
Universal Military Training and Selective Service are steps in the wrong direction above all else because they have been advanced under the influence of the fuzzy-minded concept that everything left-of-center is totalitarian. But even assuming that such military mobilization did provide the key to the situation it is difficult to see how the President's program would accomplish its aims. What will United States military force be able to achieve if, for example, Italy actually elects a government controlled by Communists? Will we fight? If we determine to act in this manner hope for peace will...
...case, Senator Saltonstall and his colleagues have demonstrated a growing concept of a memorial. It is not easy for men in the public eye to change their minds on controversial issues, and the members of this committee are to be congratulated for so doing...
...curious to know how many TIME readers, while digesting (no humor intended) the Cornell report on Cannibalism and English Columnist Nat Gubbins' subsequent play [TIME, Jan. 19], were struck by its remarkable similarity in concept to Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal, a satire written over two centuries ago and incited by the starving conditions in Ireland at that time...
...meeting favored generally the use of United Nations facilities when possible, the avoidance of "internal meddling" in economies and politics abroad, in addition to the concept of a positive reconstruction program...