Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind over his role in Government or his relationship with Ford. Pressing two fingers together, he declared: "We're like that." The circumspect Rockefeller would not discuss foreign policy ("That is not my field"). He also would not predict whether he would develop with Ford an overall concept of American life to serve as a framework for domestic policy, as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has done for U.S. foreign policy. Said Rockefeller: "My hunch is that that is what the President is going to do, [but we haven't] had the tune to sit around and just...
...Apologetic. Though it had some initial reservations, the Defense Ministry has now grown accustomed to the idea of soldiers' unions and such non-soldierly duties as helping farmers with water-logged crops. "This is part of the changing concept of the army that shiny shoes don't mean good soldiers or that noncoms can go to the same toilet as officers," says one Defense Ministry spokesman. On the other hand, some tradition-minded officers are a bit apologetic about the appearance of Dutch troops. "Sure, our military is a disgrace in uniform competition with the polish of other...
...concept of an infinitely expanding universe [Dec. 30] is hardly philosophically disturbing. To the contrary, a cyclic universe, mechanistically doomed forever to repeat itself in entropic stroke and counterstroke is disturbing in its implications of the worth of human existence...
...great mystery of infinite expansion seems to allow hope for progress, human evolution and meaningful change. It is a concept which fits well with TIME'S Christmas evaluation of biblical criticism, for it is congruent with the existence of a great God who was, is, and always will...
Sullivan builds his case for continental drift carefully, treating skeptics as fairly as he does supporters of this once controversial concept. He is clearly no believer in Immanuel Velikovsky, whose theory that cataclysmic planetary events reshaped the earth during biblical times was first scorned and then suppressed by the scientific establishment. Sullivan acknowledges modern geologists' debt to Velikovsky for forcing them to re-examine old assumptions about the earth's formation. He deals much more favorably with the late Maurice Ewing, who founded Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory and provided the theoretical basis for things like...