Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canepa has good reason to boast. His company, Concept Trailers, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., builds trucks for transporting race cars, crews, tools and supplies in classy comfort. His 50-ft. trailers, which sell for an average $275,000, hauled 30 of the 33 cars that were to take part in Sunday's Indianapolis...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosphical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
...security needs, but both have strong supporters in Congress. This method smacks of perfidious pragmatism to one of the few papers Reagan is known to read and enjoy, the conservative weekly Human Events, which bristles with articles critical of the new Administration. "I do not think President Bush's concept of the presidency can work," writes Patrick Buchanan, communications director in the Reagan White House. "Americans care much more about ideas and ideals than about 'bipartisanship' or political peace...
Taking up the narrative with his return to the U.S., Kennan allows his wit to twinkle. California reminds him "of the popular American Protestant concept of heaven: there is always a reasonable flow of new arrivals; one meets many -- not all -- of one's friends . . . and the newcomer is slightly disconcerted to realize that now -- the devil having been banished and virtue being triumphant -- nothing terribly interesting can ever happen again...
...rare student among us who has not proudly framed this revered document, and just as proudly displayed it, Magna-Carta style, in the most conspicuous location possible. Certainly, it is the sort of thing that would surely have proved impressive on a date, if indeed such a concept existed at Harvard...