Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gould should know that a basic tenet of scientific method is that phenomena must be repeatable and verifiable through observation. The law of gravity is easily verifiable; the concept of evolution remains only a theory precisely because it cannot be repeated and verified through observation...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo at Barnard College in New York City: "The liberation of women from the stereotypes and narrow possibilities that have bound their lives is one of the great movements of this century or of any other, an expansion of the concept of our human dignity and of our worth. One-half of the human race is waking to claim its birthright. The full participation of women in our national life-in our courts, capitols, boardrooms, precinct houses, theaters and universities-will flood this country with new energy and imagination and genius...
...save Walt Disney, matches the creativeness of George Lucas [May 23], the originator of the ceaseless wonders of the Star Wars universe. If anything is retained from Lucas' magical movies, it should be the concept that peace and good will always triumph...
...commemorate all victims of genocide? The answer to these questions lies in the realization that the destruction of the Jews was an irrational act that had no political, economic or military justification. The slaughter was the logical outcome of a twisted ideology based on the concept of a master race and was a unique phenomenon in history. All countries should have a Holocaust monument so that people will remember the horrors that a perverted idealism can cause...
...effort set to Brahms' Serenade in A Major, Opus 16 by San Francisco Choreographer John McFall, 36. Lynne Taylor-Corbett, whose Great Galloping Gottschalk was a hit last year, has a moody new piece, Estuary; once again the performances, by Van Hamel and Patrick Bissell, burnish a dull concept. Van Hamel, a dancer of wit and grace, has an even murkier assignment in Jiri Kylian's Torso, a grim, roughhouse pas de deux with Clark Tippet...