Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...element of all, and something that makes natural beauty worth being concerned about, is life--the unbroken living chain that extends back to the origin of life on earth. From a long-ago beginning down to each of us here, it has never failed to reproduce itself well." The concept of "organic wholeness" is more than just an observation; it is an ethic, and Brower is calling for the cultivation of a conscience in the way we treat the earth...
...BABE'S production of Coriolanus, on first viewing, appears less the product of an overall concept than dozens of ideas expertly paced and acted. Not all of the ideas work, and some of them clash, Sarah Gates's costumes, for example, successfully stifle identification with any given period: nonetheless, the combination of plebeians dressed for a production of Pirates of Penzance and aristocrats looking like refugees from Flash Gordon tends to add to an initial confusion...
...would say that in general I am speaking about a tendency within our social sciences and our development-minded people, in conjunction with tendencies within some of the more enlightened of our miltary people. I think it was this conjunction that gave birth to the concept of counter-insurgency as a constructive, both military and economic action that could help transform revolutionary situations in our direction...
...overall concept of the Charles Warren Center is a valuable and farsighted step in advancing the study of American history. As Fleming notes, "There's nothing really like this anywhere else...
...journals in the field." Volume I appeared last spring and featured three "monograph-length studies" too long for periodicals and too short for books--"The Origins of American Politics," by Bailyn (112 pages); "American Imperialism: A Reinterpretation," by Ernest R. May (159 pages); and "Attitude: The History of a Concept," by Donald Fleming (77 pages...