Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist half of the world. Dulles had dedicated his diplomatic career-as Republican servant of the Truman Administration in drawing the Japanese peace treaty, as an architect of the United Nations, and as Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State for more than six years-to the concept that power must be wielded resolutely so that moral values of natural law and justice may take root worldwide...
...seems to me to be a logical development from the experimentation of Wagner and Strauss. After all there are many passages in Wagner where there is extended tonal ambiguity. From this, it is just a small step before one asks, as Schoenberg did, 'Why not do away with the concept of a key altogether...
Naturally, this need increases as the world becomes more complicated. In a recent full-scale reevaluation of ROTC, two Dartmouth professors assert that with advancing technology, the concept of the trained reserve, hastily mobilized, citizen army is outmoded; the only realistic alternative now is a professional armed force in being, obviously necessitating good officers. Coupled with Professor Samuel Huntington's idea of officership as a profession, a policy of high-calibre training for college men to make them able officers becomes a necessity...
Architect Wright's great accomplishment was to demolish the concept that a building should be a box. But his genius was prodigal. Any Wright house contained dozens of ideas that lesser men seized upon and made a style. There is hardly a modern house in the U.S. that does not owe at least some of its features to him. Among Wright innovations: the split-level living room, the open plan for house interiors, the corner picture window, modern radiant floor heating, the carport (he coined the name...
Wright's concept of architecture was so all-encompassing that it permeated nearly every aspect of his life, from his clothes, cut to his order and design, to the chairs, napkins, bed. and even the desk blotters that he used. Hand in hand with his passion for design went a Nietzschean sense of destiny. Said he: "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change...