Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PERHAPS THE PLAY suffered from the weakening of its original concept as a string of disparate moments. Since Curse's first, highly successful opening in Chicago two years ago, Alfred has added a few long scenes and written in the only direct confrontations the script contains--Fran and Jo-Jo's single explosive moment and, later, her meeting with her aunt, which sparks a long talk over old times. But rather than fleshing out the story, the additions sit uneasily and discontinuities are all too evident. What pleasure, nostalgic or dramatic, can we glean from Fran and Aunt Gert...
This is a reversion to the concept of linkage, the idea that all the major problems in Soviet-American relations are connected. Intolerable Soviet behavior in one area, by this reckoning, must affect U.S. cooperation elsewhere. The Reagan Administration adopted this policy a year ago, but seemed to be edging away from it. Haig now plans to bring up items like the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and warn that the course of events in Poland will affect START negotiations. Said a State Department spokesman: "The Secretary has emphasized that the continuing repression of the Polish people, in which Soviet responsibility...
...idlers, Hopkins pursued a more charitable concept for his Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), which in 1935 grew into the WPA. While it cost Ickes $330 to produce one man-month of employment, it cost Hopkins only $82, for Hopkins spent 86? out of every dollar on wages for the needy, only 10.5? on material and 3.5? on administration. In months of bitter infighting with Ickes and everyone else, Hopkins steadily amassed money and power for his spending machine. The WPA became the nation's biggest employer, hiring an average of 2.1 million people annually (8 million...
...products as yet uninvented, a marketing operation as yet not in place, and a distribution system that is still largely nonexistent. Conceptually, AT&T's potential is tremendous, just so long as you are aware that if you buy into the company now you are buying a concept and nothing more...
...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 philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it 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...