Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interviews with White House aides suspected of involvement in the Watergate affair or other political sabotage. The Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to call Dean to testify about this cozy relationship with Gray. Nixon, invoking the broadest interpretation that any President has ever tried to apply to the concept of Executive privilege (see box page 28), said that neither Dean nor any other present or former White House aide will testify before any congressional committee...
...remarkable speech to the officials he supervised at HEW. "Each one of us is here because Richard Nixon was elected to the high office of President of the United States," he said. "Obviously, we are a chosen few, an elite group. We must be dedicated and devoted to the concept that our Republican President will be a great President and that he will be reelected. Above all other qualities of character that we hold near and dear, we must have deep, abiding, sincere loyalty to our President and to our Secretary...
...awkward energy that has Liza Minelli written all over it. Donnally Miller's vague and woeful wildman has a strange way of displaying innocent curiosity. He even speaks his lines as if they themselves are a source of wonderment-it's perfect. Laure Solet's performance brings the concept of complaint to its highest reaches, with a successful method that can only be called nervous nonchalance. All in all Sam Shepard's play is so vigorously acted that one's magnanimity cannot help but extend to the entire cast of thousands of crab lice...
...Malcolm X I believe who characterized political morality as "the door that squeaks the loudest gets the grease." Since The Crimson is certainly aware of the fact that the Affirmative Action concept grew out of the civil rights movement and early legal victories for racial equality, to ignore the import of that concept for minority groups is to adopt an unfortunate and spurious political posture...
...there is any hope at all for Twin Oaks, and any redeeming feature of its concept, it is to be found in the basic good faith of its members (sometimes a naivete), which often makes for a certain easy trust, sympathy, nay, love. But then again, as the protagonist admits in Walden Two, "What is love, except another name for the use of positive reinforcement...