Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case of "reverse discrimination" similar to the Bakke case [July 10]-the Untouchables' being given opportunities in jobs and universities-the Supreme Court in India ruled in 1975: "The concept of equality is that if persons are dissimilarly placed, they cannot be made equal by having the same treatment." I am a Brahman, and I agree with that decision and consequently disagree with the remarks of Justice Lewis Powell that "the guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color...
...beyond reason, refused to bother with this World Cup. Still, the Dutch team at first was clearly not the "clockwork orange" of the 1974 tournament (orange because of its uniforms and clockwork because everything it tried worked that way until the final against West Germany). It was a Dutch concept of "total football"-no stratagem at all but a blazing and relentless rush of soccer in which every team member played both attack and defense-that had dazzled the '74 tournament and given hope to soccer theorists that the days of the clogged, cupping defense that had slowed down...
...That time is ended, and the people Singer celebrates were wiped out or dispersed. Yet they live. Several times Aaron toys with the notion that time is a book in which the dead exist on pages sim ply not legible to the living. Singer's books reverse this concept: they are time, lovingly preserved and animated by laughter and wisdom...
Hurley had already failed to make peace between Stilwell and Chiang when he decided to take off for Yenan to make peace between Communists and Nationalists. Hurley was talkative, with the Southwestern garrulousness that marked Lyndon Johnson-his concept being that, if he held a conversation together by his own chatter long enough, he might find out what he himself was talking about. His style was caught best by a young congressman, sent by Roosevelt to China in November 1944, Mike Mansfield, later to be the Majority Leader of the U S 'Senate. Mansfield reported pithily to Roosevelt...
...years, I had been fascinated by the relationship of the Leader to Power, of the State to Force, of the Concept to Politics-and most recently of the Hero to his Circumstances. I would never again, after Kennedy, see any man as a hero...