Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patient resistance. The history of our people, even as far back as the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century, is that we have to deal with greater powers on our borders, for instance, Germany and Russia. But we also live in the center of Europe. The concept of politicians like Masaryk was to use Czechoslovakia to build a bridge between East and West, across the heart of Europe...
...that the government and the university recognize their claim to equal pay for work which, by some standard yet undeveloped, would be judged similar. Soon-to-be Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry has wholeheartedly endorsed the movement toward national legislation requiring businesses to institute comparable worth pay scales. The concept sounds good, but then so did Communism...
...tremendous questions about it. At this stage, there are two features of the American libel law which play together to produce a corrupt litigation situation...On the one side, one side has the ability to inquire into virtually the state of mind with which the article was written. The concept of actual malice has been played out this way, which means that a party in our litigation system has the ability to depocket the other side by exhaustively inquiring and putting the other side to the expense of depositions and so forth. It works just the other way around...
Nesson: I think the actual malice concept has got to be changed... To me the question in libel is not whether the statement was true as much as whether it was justified when it was printed...
...Guide has gained its support among the Faculty only over time. Originally the Faculty Council conceived of the book as an alternative to the Crimson's Confidential Guide; it was described as a "responsible guide." Many professors, however, nonetheless feared the Guide could have objected to the entire concept of student evaluation of their courses. The Faculty Council allowed the Guide staff to solicit information on grade medians from faculty members, but then forbid the Guide to publish them...