Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasizes several times early in his book that he is a historian by profession, less a theorist than a paradigmatic scholar. After setting forth his criteria for a scientific revolution, Cohen presents a series of case studies of revolutions and near revolutions, finally evaluating the critical perceptions of the concept of scientific revolution...
...example, Cohen argues that there is a parallel between the forms of political and scientific revolutions; he notes that Newton's Principia was published only a year before the first modern revolution, England's 1688 Glorious Revolution. This concept would make an intriguing book, but Cohen's incomplete discussion of it becomes frustrating...
...passage this year. It is going to be an extraordinarily difficult task, notwithstanding the fact that there is broad grass-roots support for the concept generally. There is extremely strong opposition with respect to the specifics. Number one, you are dealing with people's pocketbooks. Number two, you are talking about a very complicated overhaul of the tax system. And number three, you have distinctly different interests to meet in the House and Senate. (Nonetheless,) 1985, we have said, is our best shot...
...continue to press its allies to bring export standards into line with the full-scope safeguard concept. That may take time and tact. Says former I.A.E.A. Official Fischer: "There is still suspicion in Western Europe of U.S. motives in pressing for full-scope safeguards." Pressure from Washington is sometimes seen by Europeans as a ploy to improve the U.S. competitive position. Nonetheless, Fischer notes, there has been a "very distinct change" in French export practices over the past decade. U.S. pressure has played a role in that...
...movie must begin with words: a book, a script, an acknowledgment from a producer that a concept is not a bankable text. David Thomson, a London-born critic based in San Francisco, reverses the procedure with a work of fiction drawn entirely from old films. His sources are such moody classics as Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, Laura, Casablanca and dozens of other favorites from the Late Show of the American psyche...