Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Menotti says of the unusual collaboration: "We both wanted simplicity, universality and timelessness, eliminating all the unnecessary claptrap." In the flexible, open spaces, Menotti deployed his accomplished cast of American and Italian singers in fluid lines and ghostly dances, spelling out his concept that "the whole opera is based on the characters' search for each other." The designs simplified rather than complicated his problems of staging. Moore's sets "do not swamp the opera but bring out its tragedy and symbolism," Menotti says. "His sculptures are passionate and compassionate: they seem to be listening to Mozart...
...most controversial of Pannenberg's theses is his contention that the Resurrection is, properly understood, a historical event. Largely because the idea of a return from death is a concept incomprehensible to modern man, Bultmann considers the Resurrection a trans-historical myth. Pannenberg concedes that there is no way of knowing the exact mode of the Resurrection-was it simply a special vision given to Jesus' disciples, or a reconstitution of his body?-but he insists that there is no justification for dismissing it as legend. The fact of the Resurrection, he declares, was one of the primitive...
...point out that it is beyond the province of history to establish the Resurrection as a fact, since the historian can deal only with events that are within the range of human experience. American "Death of God" Theologian William Hamilton contends that Pannenberg is simply reviving the outdated medieval concept of God as the "theonomous" controller of all forces in the universe-an idea totally alien to an age of secularity...
...more impressive since Caterpillar traces its origins to a single product. The original steam-driven Cat was developed in 1904 by a Californian named Benjamin Holt, who got the novel idea of mounting a tractor on its own treadmill tracks. So successful was Holt's "crawler" concept that it inspired the British invention of the armored tank during World...
...should perhaps remember, in this connection, that the assumptions which lay back of our Vietnam policy, including the concept of a unitary and all-embracing Communist imperialism, were never based on any very close knowledge of the subject. They were a formula, in some measure a theology, adopted by lawyers, businessmen, government officials and military men in the years of the Marshall Plan and NATO. Few of the authors had any first hand knowledge of Communism. Few had much experience of the political left. None had much experience of Asia. All were reacting to the current reality of Josef Stalin...