Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This makes the concept of modern markets hard to understand and difficult to explain, even for the distinguished explainer Martin Mayer. Following an arcane account of a portfolio-hedging strategy, he writes, "You can read it twice, or three times, or you can take my word for it." Which is sound advice. Mayer has been one of the educated layman's best guides to the covert worlds of Wall Street and finance. The Bankers (1974) was a best seller. More recent books include The Fate of the Dollar (1980) and The Money Bazaars...
...what they are saying). His mother told Michael the Greek myths when he was a child. He thought there was something special about being a Greek, and there is. Precisely because he lacked the rub of real Greeks around him in the playground, being Greek was internalized as a concept more prescriptive than descriptive. When he first visited Greece, he was put off for a while by the gritty reality, the undisciplined actual citizens of Athens. That was not what being Greek meant to him. His was an older and more demanding ideal...
...Picasso is dead," trumpets Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington in her new biography of the 20th century's most visible artist, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer. The book--and the concept behind it--is at one with the purpose of the other giant-killers, as it seeks to dismantle our comfortable and timehonored portrait of the artist...
...collect data on climate and geology. And while President Reagan agreed at the recent Moscow summit to a cautious joint communique describing "scientific missions to the moon and Mars" as "areas of possible bilateral and international cooperation," the Administration has been at best lukewarm to the concept of exploring Mars, jointly or otherwise...
...starry-eyed about the promise of perestroika; change in the Soviet system, he says, is likely to be "evolutionary, not revolutionary." Dukakis believes that the U.S. should encourage Gorbachev's reforms because they involve shifting Soviet investment from military to domestic needs. Nevertheless, he . endorses the concept, usually associated with hard-liners, known as linkage: improved trade and technology transfers should be tied to Soviet progress on emigration and human rights issues...