Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Council of Love is a religious farce. But the Christian satire merely provides a vehicle for Oskar Panizza to raise questions about the moralities of love and sex. Shades of evil like Lucifer, Satan or the Leviathan don't figure in this play, the concept takes on the simple form of the devil. God might as well go by the name of The Father, it's plenty descriptive and doesn't wrench a person outside the bounds of ordinary human experience. Mary, the Eternal Woman, is indeed typical, for she cannot deal straightforwardly with sexuality, and her virginity has nothing...
...been evident for some time. It was graphically demonstrated by the recent confrontation between its leader Enrico Berlinguer and Brezhnev in Moscow. The PCI has been strongly committed to democratic institutions and civil liberties for over thirty years; it favors keeping Italy in NATO and has renounced the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In fact, even though the general elections may well produce a Communist--Socialist majority, the PCI does not want to form a government exclusively of the left, fearing that drastic polarization would result, as it did, for example, in Chile. It prefers the "historic compromise...
...University should widen the student health insurance plan to include all maternity benefits--both delivery and abortion costs. To decline to do so is to refuse responsibility for all students' welfare, a refusal that belies the concept of health insurance...
...that Howard, a fine actor, is doing a bad job. He is simply responding to Director Terry Hands' imposed conception of the play. Hands clearly wants to get entirely away from any thing overtly heroic or proudly patriotic. Such an aim, however, is difficult to square with the text and tenor of the play. Once one accepts the limitations of the director's concept, there is nothing to fault in the brio of the cast, the racehorse pace or the sense of battle-weary valor conveyed. There are different ways of showing British pluck. Dunkirk is not Agincourt...
...until after the war had ended that America saw the results in new laws and changed behavior. The Revolution was above all a struggle to protect and enhance liberty, and though liberty was at first thought to mean only freedom from Britain, in the end the concept extended to a wide range of human affairs. Some prominent men, like President Timothy Dwight of Yale, feared that the new liberality would mean an end to all morality...