Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many storefronts. But the closing of Hudson's represents far worse news for Detroiters and others concerned about American cities than other examples of the effects of the failing economy. Detroit will never be the-same without Hudson's, a 25-story urban treasure that pioneered the department store concept. A vital aspect of daily life in the city is now gone. Even if the city hit hardest by the nation's economic tumble witnesses an economic recovery, it will do so without its century-old focal point, an institution which offered a revered common experience to the urban...
...final glimpse, in which the 'symbolic children,' donning bowler hats and other adult clothes prance to a sentimental tune played on the familiar piano, haunts as a danse macabre. But even if a metaphor superimposed upon another should create an interesting metaphor for the ever-central void, the concept cannot sustain interest for all that long. Whatever its merits, the piece is likelier to clicit a perturbed yawn than a leap of any sort...
...concept of "student power" developed in this setting, borrowing heavily from the rhetoric of the civil rights movement and ultimately equating the alienation from school, parents and suburban upbringing felt by white middle-class students with the literal exclusion of Black Mississippi sharecroppers from fundamental political rights and economic opportunity...
European and American defense planners alike began to worry about : the concept of "extended deterrence" breaking down and the defense of Europe becoming "decoupled" from that of the U.S. Imagining future crises, they feared that the Soviets might be able to use their by now vast strategic power to hold America's central forces in check while they advanced bishops and knights against weaker NATO pieces on the European chessboard...
...from the outset, a risky and deeply flawed concept. The next round of SALT like the previous ones, was to be bilateral, between the two superpowers, with no chairs at the table for West European representatives. The U.S.S.R. has persistently tried to include British and French nuclear weapons on the agenda, but the U.S. is just as adamant about discussing only Soviet and American forces. Unlike the US.S.R.'s Warsaw Pact satellites, the U.S.'s NATO allies are truly sovereign states, and Britain and France have refused to let the U.S. bargain with their independent arsenals...