Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poetry. Prose, too, introspects to analysis or suggestion modern novelists seem lost in a funhouse of potential trips that stay potential, journalists discuss other journalists' intents in the New Yorker and the 20 most interesting minutes of the Carter-Ford debate were those in which the newscasters debated the concept, aim and probable effects of the broadcast while the candidates stood silent in Philadelphia...
Perhaps sensing the meaninglessness of the terms "radical" and "moderate," the press has devised surrogates that hone in on the concept of the dialectic of Chinese politics; when you're in this supposedly more authentic frame of mind, you talk about idealists and pragmatists, respectively. Even this pair of labels, which look to convey the unfriendly notions of revolutionary fervor and steady common sense, derive significance from the writer's cultural attitudes and experiences. Here the terms are being applied to a complex, fairly inaccessible society by Americans, and Thomas B. Gold, a fourth-year graduate student in Sociology, points...
Crosby is sometimes portrayed as the epitome of the entire "literary generation" of the '20s. Wolff argues convincingly against this characterization; even if one accepts the questionable concept of a literary generation, it is difficult to see why Crosby should be chosen as its representative. At best, he symbolized its excesses, its rejection of conventional manners and attitudes, but none of its literary substance...
...concept of an idyllic South has, of course, been inflated and distorted by the three-M-Magnolia, Mammy, Mockingbird-school of Dixifiction. But the South is far more than a state of mind (though it is that too). Despite urban and industrial encroachment, it remains a largely rural land of spectacular beauty and prolific resources for recreation and sentient delight. The people who inhabit the region are physically as well as psychically bound close to its mountains and woods, lakes and streams and shores. They cherish its abundant yields and convivially share them. If life in the South seems...
Black Frustrations. Kissinger is undoubtedly aware of the risk in pursuing the African initiative during a U.S. election campaign. Mindful of the feelings of many U.S. voters, he told a largely black audience in Philadelphia last week that he views apartheid as "incompatible with any concept of human dignity." The rioting in South Africa, he said, was "dramatic evidence of the frustrations of black South Africans toward a system which denies them status and political rights." While Vorster blasted what he called "moral lessons and threats from other countries," he did not call off the Zurich meeting...