Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University will suffer. It is the particular duty of the President of the University, or failing that, the Overseers, to see that this does not happen. The United Ministry plan offers an excellent alternative. To refuse to incorporate their ideas would be to pursue a highly suspect concept of pluralism...
...most interesting in the film, though there is not much competition. She is a quivering little bundle of sadomasochism, helping the two drivers and destroying them at the same time. Unfortunately, Strick does not get around to concentrating on her or developing the character beyond a flat concept. He is content to let her quiver while he takes pictures of the honky-tonk at the side of the road...
...China. During the Opium War--China's disastrous contact with the naked force of Western imperialism--complete alteration of battle results was common. The deceptions protected individual officers in the eyes of the emperor at the expense of the entire people--but then "the people" was only a vague concept in the Confucian tradition. The ruling hierarchy could not handle conflicts greater than relations between individuals, the relations Confucius had mastered and taught...
...single one" far more dangerous, far more difficult. The democratic nations of the West, it may be argued, with freedom of expression, of publication, free access to information, representative government, and laws that can be protested, revised, repealed, are not in the line of fire. The individual, as a concept and as a necessity is recognized and honored; his moral responsibility honored; his dignity respected; the long questions he poses himself of meaning and life and death--though perhaps not encouraged--are not reviled. The worth of the individual human being is in no danger, in short; in fact...
Walton calls himself "a revolutionary" and "an internationalist." He says that he cannot understand labels of nationality or why people in California are so much more affluent than those just across the border in Baja California. "My concept of revolution," he explains, "has nothing to do with violence. Instead, each person starts within himself questioning his own values, judgments and relationship to society. Ultimately, you wind up living as part of the problem or part of the solution...