Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short-term measure "to see that there are no holes in the bucket carrying energy to industry and homes." For the longer term, he advocates a reorganization of the entire economy to make it both more fuel efficient and responsible: "I think we have to introduce the concept of social governance of the production process; we need to find some way for society to determine directly what to produce...
Shultz: Why, Mr. Commoner, should we all live by your standard of judgment of the relative value of various products when we have a means that allows us to give everyone a chance to express their judgments by the way they spend their own money in the market? Your concept of social governance would decide what products to produce with our resources by an essentially political process with the decisions made in Washington by politicians and bureaucrats...
...real problem of All That Glitters, however, is not the show's concept. Nor is it the complaints of feminists or chauvinists. It is the execution: compared with many of Lear's other productions, the show is embarrassingly amateurish. The jokes are flaccid and the writing flat. The acting is mediocre and the direction aimless. Lear has tried to mount a revolution, but he has succeeded only in enthroning the yawn. Gerald Clarke
...repeat of the first, except this time with all the multi-media possibilities of the Loeb exploited. This part is wholly the creation of director Peter Sellars '80, Harvard's own artist-huckster Christo who as a freshman has foisted this crazy unorthodox production on the mainstage. His concept is a chic one A la Altman and Chorus Line, the director and actors got together during rehearsal in a dance studio filled with mirrors and spent a month improvising, trying to squeeze characters out of the Sitwell poetry, while a photographer snapped glamourous pictures of the cast which are projected...
...State Department for an unannounced and fruitful meeting. Later, Carter disclosed that he had received personal assurances from Brezhnev that the Soviet Union was as serious as the U.S. in its pursuit of a new agreement. Then, in a statement that was both conciliatory in tone and extraordinary in concept, Carter declared that if the Soviets gave him evidence that the U.S. proposals presented at Moscow were inequitable, he would consider changing them when the talks begin next month in Geneva. With dizzying speed, the diplomatic chill turned into a spring thaw. The Moscow "failure" might yet prove to have...