Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nervous system, especially the thought-storing process, in terms of physical mechanisms. In 1943 he and the late Walter Pitts theorized that the brain could be described as a computing machine, operating on a mathematically logical basis, and that these principles could also be used in computers-a concept that paved the way for great advances in computer technology...
...prescribes a fine of $10,000 or five years in prison-or both-for anyone who "travels in interstate commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including but not limited to the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio or television, with intent to incite riot." The concept of judging a defendant's intent is not particularly unusual; there are such offenses as assault with intent to kill. In dealing with a person's frame of mind regarding civil disorders, however, large and ambiguous questions arise involving the difference between the legitimate exercise of dissent and an unlawful...
...guys are resentful barbarians, who pick on the good guys for no reason and make stupid jokes ("They look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.") Easy Rider's tacked-on message, built to remit all intellectual sins, reminds one in its ludicrousness of Hollywood's concept of the "anti-war" film. Inevitably these films will conclude with a ringing condemnation of war; but that conclusion is undermined by the horrifying argument that has gone before-scene after scene of exhilarating battle sequences. Easy Rider's ending is equally convincing...
Though society has overhauled the university in this and other ways, the university must not turn its back on society. It has come too far to retreat to the concept of Little Ivy espoused by Professor Ulam. Shutting out political controversy and the mania for "relevance" might indeed bring forth a tranquil university. A tranquil university, though, would also be a dead...
October will bring The Concept, a chilling piece of theatre performed by members of Daytop Village, a community of ex-dope addicts. It was one of last season's biggest off-Broadway successes. This will be followed by Le Treteau de Paris' stark production of the Anouilh Antigone, which, when I saw it four years ago, struck me as an unusual presentation of a much too frequently done play...