Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some Pindar this summer, but he suggests a singular literary journey for students. If they read anything at all, they must read the Robert S. Fitzgerald '33 translation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nagy assigns the Richard Lattimore version for his perennially popular course Lit & Arts C-14. "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization." He lauds the Fitzgerald translation as a "beautiful experience because of its artists unity...
...might be obliged to arrest and press charges against student trespassers. The fact that he didn't attests to his personal morality. It also testifies to his pragmatism; he had learned the lessons of 1969 well. To Bok, the university's virtue is inevitably bound up with Machiavelli's concept of virtu: the employment of prudence in the service of all specific ends. His ethics and ethos are relativist...
...year-old aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo. Loss of the vessel was a substantive blow to Argentine prestige. Moreover, the decision to sink the Belgrano outside the 200-mile blockade constituted a sharp escalation of the fighting and an abrupt change from the "minimal use of force" concept...
Such a simplified income tax is not an entirely new concept. It has long been advocated by conservative thinkers such as Economist Milton Friedman, former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon and William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review. What is new is that the flat tax is starting to gather strong bipartisan support. Its sponsors on Capitol Hill now include Congressman Leon Panetta, a liberal Democrat from California, as well as Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. The liberal Washington Post touted it in an editorial last month...
Reagan's visceral opposition to a nuclear "freeze" is also disturbing, for a halt in the nuclear arms race would seem a logical precursor to reversing it. For one thing, the "freeze" is not necessarily as fuzzy a concept as its opponents claim, and could take the form of a mutual, comprehensive and relatively easily verifiable ban on testing and deploying new weapons. For another, the Administration has yet to make a convincing argument that theoretical Soviet strategic superiority, either in Europe or in the alleged ability to hit American land-based missiles, has much meaning in the real world...