Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning Flexibility. "There is no peculiar virtue in the concept of flexibility," said he. "To me, flexibility implies compromise and concession. When applied to fundamental principles-right principles-flexibility is not only without virtue; it becomes a vice . . . Have we forgotten the lessons of the Hitler era, with its compromises, concessions and flexibilities...
...under IGY organization, but working closely with IGY personnel at the Smithsonian. It was typical of a number of important finds; for many of IGY's most distinguished and valuable contributions have come from scientists not working under the Geophysical Year grants from the National Science Foundation. The whole concept of setting aside a year or eighteen months for special cooperation in the sundry fields of science was so broad a project that it touched people whose whole lives have been dedicated to research in specific areas--oceanography, meteor study, or sunspot work, for example...
...Assimilation. The Loi-cadre was in itself a revolutionary move in French colonial thinking. It meant the end of the concept of a French republic "one and indivisible" and of the tradition of cultural "assimilation." But for all France's concessions, and for all the money it belatedly spent on schools (there are still only 250 in Guinea), on building the port of Conakry, on roads and on the battles against such scourges as malaria, sleeping sickness and leprosy, Toure made no secret of the fact that he regarded the Loi-cadre as only "a first step...
...Concept for Chaos. Late last month, apparently aware of the crying need for a sensible priority system in the allocation of labor and transport, Peking's bureaucrats ordered a cutback in the backyard blast-furnace campaign. But all signs are that the shock-program concept still prevails. Currently, Red China's masses are engrossed in a drive to collect and distribute 10 billion tons of fertilizer; the nation's steel production target for 1959 is set for 18 million tons, a 64% increase over alleged production last year. Says one Hong Kong hand: "If they got snarled...
...have from the very beginning of our history insisted that there is a rule of law which is above the rule of man. That concept we derived from our English forebears, but we played a part in its acceptance. As John Marshall put it, 'There are principles of abstract justice which the Creator of all things has impressed on the mind of his creature...