Word: conceptions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...action, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, General of the Society of Jesus, sent a twelve-page letter to American Jesuits, accusing them of failing to do enough for the Negro. "The racial crisis involves, before all else," wrote Arrupe, "a direct challenge to our sincerity in professing a Christian concept of man." Arrupe laid down a series of suggestions for U.S. Jesuits, including the creation of new missions in urban ghettos. He also ordered each superior to draw up a specific plan of action on behalf of Negroes in his province...
...most fortunate consequence of the recent controversy is that almost everyone seems to understand that the issues raised by it are vexing ones, and cannot be resolved by glib critical formulae or reassertions of established practices. It is for this reason that I tried to avoid the concept of the university's complicity in the war. If indeed I did not succeed, it shows how easy it is to fall into rhetorical grooves even when one does not want to. But while the demonstration was conceived of and acted out as a protest against...
...think it's possible to sever Harvard from the community. That concept of a University is a medieval dream. Even medieval universities were established to train people...
...concept of private affluence and public squalor in the United States is a familiar one, and correct as far as it goes. But save for a rare person such as John Kenneth Galbraith, it rarely extends to the notion that public squalor includes the penury and squalor of public building and city planning. Indeed, the very persons who will be the first to demand increased expenditures for one or another forms of social welfare, will be the last to concede that the common good requires an uncommon standard of taste and expenditure for the physical appointments of government...
...there is much to what he says. But that seems to me simply to define the special requirements of this age of enormity: to create a public architecture of intimacy, one that brings people together in an experience of confidence and trust. The city beautiful is as valid a concept today as it was when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson established it as an American principle almost two centuries ago. It is not a concept to be traded in for anyone's notion of private gain or social welfare. It is not an efflorescence of elite aestheticism...