Word: conceptions
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...retrospective construction" that would have been unrecognizable just after World War II, when both Jews and Gentiles had reasons to avoid focusing on it. (Jews didn't want to be perceived as victims; America as a whole had embraced West Germany as a cold war ally.) Our current concept of the term, he writes, began to emerge with the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann and became ingrained when American Jewish organizations found it a potent metaphor for their fears about Israel's survival following the Six-Day War in 1967 and the October...
Originally the brainchild of Thomas Krens, then head of the nearby Williams College Museum of Art and currently the expansion-minded director of the Guggenheim, Mass MoCA was supposed to be a big splashy gallery, similar in concept to the Guggenheim in Bilbao. The same architect, Frank Gehry, and other big names, worked on the initial plan. But in 1988 Krens moved to the Guggenheim, and the economic boom known as the "Massachusetts Miracle" evaporated, taking the funding with it. Joseph Thompson, Krens' successor, was left holding the baby. He has proved a shrewd parent. Thompson and a local architectural...
...incubator, something doctors have since learned to be extremely cautious about. But as a result, I lost my sight. I was sent to a state school for the blind, but I flunked first grade because Braille just didn't make any sense to me. Words were a weird concept. I remember being hit and slapped. And you act all that in. All rage is anger that is acted in, bottled in for so long that it just pops out. Helen had it harder. She was both blind and deaf. But, oh, the transformation that came over her when she discovered...
VINCE LOMBARDI He was the essence of coach, this gruff, gap-toothed tyrant-with-a-heart-of-gold who forged championships--five in seven seasons--not from brilliant constellations of X's and O's but from his total commitment to the concept of a team. The Packers "didn't do it for individual glory," Lombardi once said. "They did it because they loved one another." Maybe so--but Green Bay lineman Jerry Kramer saw it differently: "The difference between being a good football team and a great football team," he wrote of Lombardi, "was only...
...concept of activism on campus elicits a sardonic smile from many, if not most, Harvard students. Despite the snickers, however, Hennefeld and PSLM succeeded this year in forcing a change in University policy, an unusual accomplishment for a campus group. In March of this year, after more than a year of negotiations on sweatshop concerns, Harvard officials agreed to disclose publicly all information relating to the licensed manufacture of insignia clothing. Also, the University agreed in principle to support a code of conduct specifying minimum working conditions to which factories must adhere in order to produce Harvard apparel. With other...