Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer to this problem has been the concept album, and it's proven largely unsuccessful. The idea of doing an album comprised of musical reflections on one central idea is a noble one; but all too often, the listener is bludgeoned with the artist's self-proclaimed sensitivity, the connections are strained, and the themes themselves are pretentious or trivial. In the rare instances where concept albums have succeeded (Randy Newman's Good Ole Boys, for example), the songs have seemed like elements of a large orchestral work; the whole has seemed greater than the sum of its parts. Such...
...reality, there's no more urgency to explore any one reality like it's the answer, the truth. Everyone's always looking for the truth. The truth is there is no truth. Everything's constantly changing, and the pain from existence seems to come from clinging to some concept of truth or reference point...
Boston University is fully committed to the concept of a free and unfettered press. If, however, a publication is to be financed by University funds, the University has a responsibility to ensure that it be free of libelous material that would be harmful to others and could lead to damaging litigation. For this reason, it has been University policy since 1969, during the administration of President Arland Christ-Janer, that the University will not be responsible for student publications which create such a potential; these publications must be independent. The Daily Free Press, a publication of Boston University students...
...minute speech turned into a near tirade as he insisted that Israel would not go back to the "fragile, breakable, aggression-provoking and bloodshed-causing lines preceding the fifth of June 1967." With mounting fervor, Begin turned to the subject of self-determination for the Palestinians. "That wonderful concept of self-determination," he said, "was misused in the late '30s, and as a result of that concept, disaster was brought upon Europe, upon the world ... May I state: let never again that concept be misused, because we remember the late '30s and the result of that misuse." As his listeners...
...that there will be more than 1,700 "nickel-and-dime" disasters. The public, she laments, seems unconcerned. "The trade-off is almost made - a viable coast for the plunge offshore, for a few more moments of twilight before the oil lamp goes out, for prolonging the ocean-sink concept until some version of Black Mayonnaise hits us in the face, the nostrils...