Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn's extreme view of events was illustrated not long ago in a lecture over Madrid television. He dismayed liberals by declaring that the Falangist victory in the Spanish civil war had been a victory for "the concept of Christianity." Addressing Spaniards who view their government as a dictatorship, Solzhenitsyn assured them that after an eight-day trip he could see that they enjoy "absolute freedom...
...been building since World War II. But it has, in the eclectic fashion world of 1976, undeniably come of age and attained a new level of élan and confidence. "I think for the first time that the attitude that the American woman has about dressing is the concept most admired and emulated in the world," says Grace Mirabella, Vogue's editor in chief. "It is because she is on to something-a certain way and kind of dressing, a demand for ease and a kind of good looks, a simplicity of looks...
Certainly American fashion today is much more than pretty clothes. Says Geraldine Stutz, president of ultra-chic Henri Bendel in Manhattan and one of retailing's shrewdest oracles: "Fashion is a much broader concept now. It's not just from the chin to the ankles. Fashion now means health, good looks, being in shape, good skin, beauty care. It means wine, furniture, needlecraft, growing things. Fashion today means the environment as well as clothes...
...exception.) But Skinner has a purpose for the resulting "and then" paratactical tedium of his style. Even his detractors laud his achievements in the development of teaching machines and in animal training, and grudgingly admit the success of behavior modification with autistic children and the mentally ill. But the concept of a genetically-and environmentally-programmed existence, of an a-responsible, un-free person rebounding from punishment to reward, has stuck in the craw of humanists from George Bernard Shaw to William F. Buckley, Jr. Metaphysics aside, they have argued, the sheer complexity of our experiences would preclude a valid...
...discipline, the technique of making one's self open to one's self. She trains the dancer's body to put itself into a state of attentive neutrality, ready to receive, transform and make concrete mental images--"calling out" or "the body falls up," Chassler's working concept last fall. Like the surrealist's pen taking down words from a will other than the poet's conscious self, the body becomes a perfect channel. She becomes the words themselves...