Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Father Berrigan's statements about Israel are added testimony to his courage and sincerity as an advocate of peace and justice. That his incisively true remarks would infuriate some American Jewish religious leaders is significant. These leaders cannot separate the concept of Israel as a foreign political entity from the concept of Judaism as a religious faith...
...unique part of Britannica 3 (estimated price: $550) is the Propaedia, a one-volume "outline of the whole of human knowledge" that serves as a framework and guide for the material in the other 29 volumes. The concept of the Propaedia stems from the Greek words that constitute the term encyclopaedia: the whole circle (or complete system) of learning. Adler describes the content of the Propaedia as a "circle of learning" that is divided, pie-like, into ten major segments: matter and energy, the earth, life on earth, human life, human society, art, technology, religion, the history of mankind...
College by newspaper, which began on Oct. 4, is the concept of Caleb A. Lewis, project director at the University of California Extension at San Diego. It is financed by a $96,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and $42,500 from the Exxon Foundation. NEH is considering under writing additional courses on aspects of American life after the current one ends next month. Lewis would welcome the opportunity to continue and expand the program. "The person I want to reach most," he says, "is the guy who was turned off by school...
...that Gerald Ford has been sworn in, Congress must accelerate its moves toward the impeachment of President Nixon. At the core of our democratic process is the right to make a choice. Implicit in this concept is the right to make the wrong choice. However, to continue to be a great nation we must show that we have the guts to right our wrongs...
...Congratulations to Professor G. Etzel Pearcy, whose concept of a new 38-state union [Dec. 17] also releases budget-starved urban areas from rural domination in state legislatures...