Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter what more we may or may not learn about the Watergate case, this Administration's concept of honor and law-and-order has been made perfectly clear...
Rights and the concept of right are systematically related. Rights are those claims that are derived from the concept of right as opposed to those claims which arise simply from our values in the ends which we pursue. Rights are those claims which must be recognized not because of ends or values but because of our status as entities having ends or values ourselves. The system of rights defines our set of categorical claims upon each other establishing our position under the concept of right. The values we pursue we pursue from that position. In this sense, right is prior...
...suggestion that the determinists clammy fingers are being pried loose from a 50-year stranglehold on America's intellectual life is stimulating to contemplate. We may see the day when the dynamic concept that a person must consider himself primarily responsible for his own development will once again become acceptable...
...appear voluntarily before Ervin's committee if they are asked to do so. They will testify under oath and in public, "and they will answer fully all proper questions." He said they will, however, retain the right to refuse to answer any question that infringes on Nixon's concept of Executive privilege...
...idea was typical of the ecumenical '60s: a well-meaning, religiously tolerant but bureaucratic concept imposed from the top. Yet for a decade, the Consultation on Church Union (COCU) seemed to be one of Protestantism's brightest liberal hopes. Proposed in 1960 by Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, it swiftly grew into an ambitious ecumenical plan embracing some 24 million Americans in nine Protestant denominations, who looked forward to a new streamlined and united Protestantism. The real troubles did not begin until 1970, when COCU actually proposed a detailed plan for union. Members soon began complaining about the prospect...