Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be on the inside receiving brickbats, instead of outside throwing them. We must be alert and liberal in the sense of Abraham Lincoln's concept that the individual is the complex heart of society. We must not be a stuffy and pompous party...
...original insult; thus you compound the evil. As friend and attorney for Mr. Hoover I write to say that your crack could have no result but to undermine the standing of J. Edgar Hoover as a unique, law-enforcing official, one who has impressed on our folkways a concept of law & order while still preserving full civil liberties even for law violators. Why don't you admit that the implications of the article were unfounded and unwarranted ? Why not say that your face is red? Surely TIME will not diminish in public esteem by such a brave admission...
...Organized liberals and writers who are concerned about the South need to change their approach. . . . They should approach the South with compassion, not with a savage badgering.... We Southerners just don't take to that. ... The racial concepts and prejudices which the Southerner holds . . . cannot be changed by law, by ridicule or by threat. Only reason and education, and an old concept of brotherhood . . . can change them...
...Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some of the most astonishing misconceptions of the public stood since the scholastics counted angles on pinpoints, and from this same stern eyric now comes a new concept of what Sin, traditional antagonist of all that was holy in Boston, will mean to New Englanders in these unsettling times...
...plagued the UN to date, disputes over territorial and economic expansion, atom bombs and free elections are, reduced to their simplest forms, offshoots of the mutual fear of two groups of nations, and are not the result of one hard-to-define ideology's incompatibility with another equally vague concept. Nations have feared other nations in the past, and our present uneasiness over Russian armies, or Russian apprehension of our plans and bombs fit into this historical pattern...