Word: conceptions
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This is an increasingly popular and provocative notion, but Bell fails to explain why. His book, based on the anecdotal evidence of 100 conversations with various white-middle class men is intended as a "progress report" on the changes in man's concept of manhood brought on by the women's movement and the vaguely defined technological-economic changes of the 60s and 70s. This is a mushy premise to start from inevitably it produces mushy conclusion. Here they are: Men today are torn between their desire for more equal partnership; men want close male friendships, but find emotional intimacy...
Reagan talks about using force in the ideological struggle. We do not include within the framework of the ideological struggle an attempt to impose our ideas on the U.S. by force or the threat of force. That is the difference between Reagan's concept...
...gloom lifts later along the path through the course descriptions. Professor Greg Nagy's "Heroes for Zeros" (CLAS S-102, "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization") strides forward, a manly and dependable gut in any season. FNAR S-13e, "Introduction to the History of Art." PSYCH S-15" Introduction to Physchology and Social Relations"--this is the stuff of the whispered "Camp Harvard," GOVT S-30. "Introduction to American Government," is a course of many high school students...
...20th century, British Catholic pressure on the Vatican helped persuade the papacy at one point to outlaw even contacts with non-Catholics as undermining the concept of the One True Church. But in 1958 Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli, the Patriarch of Venice, was elected Pope John XXIII after the death of the doctrinally stern Pius XII, and a new mood about Christian unity took hold. Two years later, John established the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity to further ecumenism among all Christian groups. And the Second Vatican Council, called into session by Pope John XXIII in 1962, began...
...Papacy. In 1967 Pope Paul VI got to the heart of the matter: "The Pope, as we all know, is undoubtedly the gravest obstacle in the path of ecumenism." There are millions of Protestants-and not just in Britain-who staunchly oppose the very concept of the papal office. Even tolerant non-Catholics could not accept the papacy as it now operates. But there may be some basis in history for compromise. Before the llth century split, the Orthodox granted Rome's traditional primacy of honor within the entire church and its authority in settling disputes on appeal...