Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical political activism. But the monthly magazine And It is Divine is larded with such statements. In a recent issue, an editorial proclaimed "It is safe to say that until now the 'Movement' as a political and cultural effort has failed." Idealists must come to share the same concept of reality, it stated, or their efforts would fall apart as differing approaches diluted energies and worked at cross purposes. Rennie Davis, a Chicago Eight defendant and recent convert to Divine Light, made the same argument: in a recent world tour, which included a stop this spring at Harvard, he repeatedly...
...effect of this questioning was positive and remains so despite the apparent retreat of students into a new conservatism. Perhaps the most important contribution of this search for values and the concommitant glorification of the worker was the introduction of the word "elitism" into common usage. Certainly the concept itself was not new; what was new was the notion that being an elitist could be bad, that the natural order of things should not involve one group dictating to everyone else what their goals and interests should be. That students at elite colleges should reject that notion -- even for just...
...S.O.M. soon had an ingenious solution. Graham's engineer-partner, Fazlur Khan, illustrates the concept by grasping a bundle of nine upright cigarettes. Each represents, in effect, a separate, square building, 75 ft. by 75 ft.; joined together, the nine square "tubes" form the basic structure of the Sears Tower. By combining all nine tubes -each of which is inherently a strong, rigid shape-the building needs less structural steel than a conventional tower. The saving: about $10 million in steel costs...
...danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security.'" So wrote Justice Lewis Powell, a Nixon appointee, in the 1972 Supreme Court opinion that forbade the wiretapping of domestic organizations and individuals without a court warrant. Ironically, the court issued its decree just two days after the Watergate conspirators were caught with electronic surveillance equipment in the headquarters of the Democratic National Party-a legitimate political dissent organization if there ever...
Brooks, however, has chosen to retain as much of the Ashburn tradition as possible. As his successor, the school picked 35-year-old Peter Aitkens, a former physics teacher at England's Eton College, precisely because he was committed to Ashburn's concept of a small, select boarding school...