Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week the prosecution will ask the jury to take Patty at her recorded word, but the defense will argue that her denial of brainwashing was itself a product of a powerful and pervasive mindbending. Expert witnesses for both sides will wrestle with a concept of coerced behavior that evokes memories of zombie-like American P.O.W.s and the Communist show trials in which psychologically conditioned defendants zealously confessed to crimes they could not possibly have committed...
...before the first benefits were paid,* Congress amended the act to base payments partly on need-a concept foreign to true insurance. Low-income workers get retirement benefits that replace a larger proportion of their former earnings than the benefits of high-income workers do. A retired worker with dependents collects more than one without, even if both have paid exactly the same amount of taxes into the system, and there is a minimum level of benefits available to someone who has paid very, very little...
...raise the wage base, use general revenue money, and cut the payroll tax rate from the present 5.85% to 3.9%. But he faces stiff opposition. President Ford at his budget briefing argued that with any use of general revenues to finance Social Security, "you are in effect losing the concept that a person working is paying for his or her retirement." Social Security Commissioner James Cardwell fears that reliance on general revenues instead of payroll taxes would be "an open invitation to enlarge the program." As the financial burden of a larger program began to pinch, Cardwell believes, the idea...
Aspects of Frye's thesis are often as complex as his style is weighty. In brief, Frye's concept of Romance is based on the two charts of archetypal worlds he used so often in classes last year: the cyclical world moving around the earth, upward to heaven, downward toward hell, and then back to earth again; and the polarized world of identity and alienation. These worlds form the backdrop for his vast catalogue of common ascent and descent motifs in Romance, and the redemptive/demonic or fulfilled/alienated heroes and heroines that people them...
Frye's whole concept of literature, since the 1950s, tries to extract literary criticism from the kind of scholarly biases that determine what's "good" and what's "bad" on some kind of stock market of literature. He parodies the idea in Anatomy of Criticism by talking about how T.S. Eliot used to say Milton was bearish and Spenser bullish one year, and vice-versa the next. He also warns against attaching certain cultural values to particular works and therefore making them important, or parts of the "myth" of a particular society. This, anyway, is his ideal for criticism...