Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a great deal of serious work to be done. Our understanding of the modern American economy needs to be greatly improved, and radical critiques developed. Alternative systems of industrial organization and of education need to be formulated. The whole concept of decentralized democracy needs to be worked out intelligibly and plausibly. In short, credible alternatives to present forms of production and social organization must be proposed...
Glenn E. White, general manager of Chrysler-Plymouth division, said the selection of Road Runner "verifies for us that the concept for this care was right on target. Road Runner was designed to appeal to the enthusiast and has been priced so that it is a true budget Super Car. We are gratified that the readers of Car and Driver have voted it a winner...
Like many another basic Christian doctrine - the virgin birth, the divinity of Christ, the existence of heaven and hell - the traditional concept of original sin is currently undergoing more se rious and skeptical scrutiny than ever be fore. Liberal Protestants began their criticism in the last century; now many Catholic thinkers are also challenging the doctrine. One of the latest broad sides is the work of the Rev. Herbert Haag, a Catholic Biblical scholar at the University of Tübingen in Germany. In his new book, called Is Original Sin in Scripture? (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), Haag argues that there...
Relying on the grading committee, however, undermines the whole concept of tutorial education. Honors programs are designed to provide personal and continuous instruction for the concentrator. Their value comes from the regular interchange between tutor and student. As weekly dialogues, tutorials cannot be treated as narrowly directed courses which can be put together at the end of the term and distilled into a paper or a final examination. A single ten-page paper could never adequately represent a student's over-all record in tutorial; only the tutor could properly evaluate his student's year-long performance...
That people exercise and warm up before a rehearsal does not seem very odd. Athletes do it all the time. But implicit in the kinds of exercises Cooper's cast has been doing is a concept of acting very different from what has often been common in the past. Perhaps it can best be called "gut" acting...