Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...October 1974 Dubcek addressed a lengthy protest to Czechoslovakia's Parliament against the system of absolute power ruling his country. "It is crucial," he wrote, "that the very concept behind this method of governing be destroyed theoretically, organizationally and politically...
...ones who thought they were well versed in their race's history, who did not come away from their TVs shaken to the core by Roots. Said Aurora Jackson, a social worker in Chicago: "It's one thing to read about this, and another thing to see it. My concept of slavery was always intellectual. For the first time, I really felt I had a picture of how horrible life...
...task of biology teaching... can be fulfilled by an orientation toward the concept of the biotic community... The student must be led to the conception that Germany is his living space to which he is linked by the bond of blood...When this insight is applied to the human biotic community, when the future German racial comrade feels himself to be a link in the German biotic community, and when he is imbued with the idea of the blood relationship of all Germans, then class differences and class hatred cannot take acute forms, as was often the case...
Ferguson calls himself "one of the major fathers of the whole concept of affirmative action," citing a controversial paper he wrote in 1957 and a Civil Rights Commission paper in 1963 that he said led to the incorporation of Title Seven in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that year...
...disco years. Bass line, mellotron and the choral vocals are all classic components of a disco arrangement, though the sounds and inspirations seem to originate elsewhere. Bowie's mellow but beautifully articulated baritone contrasts with his high sharp "rock" voice. The cut has brief moments when the musical concept seems to jell, but ultimately there is little sense of build or progression...