Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concept is cogent if not staggeringly original, and on-the-spot scenes in Berlin, Rome, and Madrid add force to the picture. Ann Richards contributes one of the most perfect speaking voices ever recorded, Sylvia Sidney an excellent performance, and Robert Young a debonair priggishness. He is the very model of a blind American ambassador...
...Forces' concept of its own manifest destiny-either enforcing the peace under the United Nations or keeping the U.S. secure...
...teachers," he read, "have the habit of blind worship for . . . the man in power. . . . They used to endeavor to instill in the minds of their pupils that the Emperor was God. Now they claim that General MacArthur is the Savior.. .. Until the Japanese are cleansed of this servile concept, democracy in Japan will make no progress...
...opposed to the general concept of a snail's life and locomotion . . . I have found that the snail is in actuality a fast-moving animal in relation to his sphere and the relativity of distances. . . . Considering the great heights to which he can lay his track, the rough terrain over which he can glide, the obstacles which he tackles and surmounts . . . . the tenacity of purpose in achieving his goal, and a total lack of the all-too-human traits of indirection and lassitude-the snail is to be considered among the higher of the living animals...
...tremulously disagree with Dr. Scott (TIME, July 22) when he states that the Roman Catholic Church emphasizes the social concept of Christianity. That may have been what I was taught in Catholic parochial grammar school, high school and college, but what I got out of it was that the individual conscience is supreme. Society will be converted to a Christian outlook when the individuals who go to make it up are so converted...