Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOME months back I got a message in a fortune cookie that said, "True love can be found if you look for it." It was an odd message to receive; the conventions of our age tell us that love comes only to the young or to the lucky. The concept of true love based on committment or permanency is one from which many people in the 1980s seem to shy away...
...course, Jack as devil conforms much better to the expectations of British nobility than did Jack as god of love. Message: man, or at least members of the British ruling class, is essentially evil in his inability to love, and sanity can be inseparable from insanity. A simple enough concept to grasp, but it takes the play the greater part of three hours to convey it, accompanied by incredible histrionics and overdramatic scenes...
Wolfe, author of such bestsellers as "The Right Stuff" and "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers," is considered by many to have created a new style of American journalism that challenges the concept of objectivity in reporting...
...further annoyed by the author's persistent placement of quotation marks around the work "information," as if, despite the motto of his or her school, he or she has no concept of what the term means. The author has a right to his or her opinion; indeed, I am still forming mine. But Harvard employees are not worker drones in need of salvation, and we welcome the opportunity to investigate both sides of this complicated issue. Sharon E. Block Marketing Staff Assistant Harvard School of Public Health
...players squaring off in a seven-inning game. One pitches, the other hits. One hits, the other pitches. No bases to run, you only have to field grounders and catch fly balls. It's not that complicated a concept...