Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goldwin plans a series of seven or eight conversations annually between the President and people outside Government who have diverse views, experience and background. The concept is much in keeping with the open-door policy that Ford established for his presidency and that has been criticized by some as too timeconsuming. But Ford's recognition of the need to widen the horizons that bounded his 25 years in Congress-and his willingness to listen to other sides-is commendable...
Dagger Thrust. Each age must measure its knowledge of war, its concept of force against the Iliad, and that is one reason the poem has been translated and retranslated, from Alexander Pope's resounding version in 1720 to Richmond Lattimore's literal yet poetic rendering of 1951. In Pope, for instance, dactylic hexameters were given their royally cadenced English equivalent to which Homeric heroes stepped rather like late-Renaissance princes. Robert Fitzgerald, Harvard's Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and a poet (Spring Shade, 1971) in his own right, has cut back on the pomp without...
Thanks to his antiwar record, Miki was able to remain active in politics during the U.S. occupation. Since the war he has held ten Cabinet posts, serving competently, although demonstrating no particular brilliance. As Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1968, Miki developed the "Asia-Pacific Concept," which envisaged a more active role for Japan in regional affairs. The Ministry of Finance is the only important portfolio he has not held, which could be a serious liability as he tries to develop economic programs...
Your American Note on humanity's first interstellar message [Dec. 2] called it an act of faith. You might also have described it as a symbolic act, part of a revolution in our concept of our place in the universe...
...Left and points out many of its faults. A major shortcoming of the student left, he notes, is that they seem unable to understand how a free society without authoritative regulation or control could possibly work. As Friedman writes, "They have not grasped, emotionally or intellectually, the concept of non-coercive cooperation, of a society that lets everyone get what he wants." The purpose of Friedman's book is to describe such a free society and how it would work...