Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acutely aware that the enduring problem was that of a continent unable to govern its own affairs. As the Zambia Daily Mail observed, "The almost casual ease with which European powers can fly into an African country and airlift its nationals or occupy whole towns is making the very concept of African independence meaningless...
...office of a Philadelphia firm where he looked for his first advertising job, Rubicam wrote a scathing letter that launched his career. Always a forceful writer, he ceaselessly sought fresh, strong ad copy when he formed his own agency with John Orr Young. He also introduced to advertising the concept of market research when he hired a then unknown George Gallup to conduct consumer polls...
...wants to study what he calls "the fabric of one's life," a man's complete "life structure" which embodies his occupation, relations to parents, friends, lovers, children, his varied social roles and self-definitions, and his basic choices, problems and paths in life. Through this over-arching concept...
...life has long been a common practice for writers of the most varied sort--psychologists, novelists and playwrights through the ages have all taken up the phrase. But no one has ever gone beyond the literary use of the term to explore just what the concept of seasons in a man's life really means. Although psychologists Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget have discovered, through intensive study and observation of children, that people go through a given sequence of developmental phases in the early years of life, no full-scale or systematic study of the entire life course has ever...
Crucial to his theory of adult development, as Levinson emphasized in his speech at Harvard last week, is the concept of the Dream, and the related concept of the Mentor. In forming a concept of himself, a young man necessarily imagines an ideal life for himself, whether he focuses on his career, relationships, or his intellectual life is unimportant; so long as he creates a mental picture of the Dream he will pursue his development is on course. He will modify the Dream as he grows and changes and learns about his life and himself, and he may even change...