Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes closest to "universal harmony" in two forms of human activity, work and love. Unger's views about the value of work seem adapted from Marx, but he avoids the concept of alienation and sees no need for the worker to be a jack-of-all-trades. Unger accepts the continued division of labor, though he says it is moderated and refined to prevent the worker from feeling apart from the larger product...
...describe a particular, he can construct no clear vision of what should come about. The rudiments of his new theory, as formulated, is open to pretty much the same attacks he levels at Marxism. In attempting "total" criticism, Unger launched an attack not merely upon liberalism, but upon the concept of theory itself. And it is probably safe to say that he will spend the next 20 years trying to do what seems impossible: designing a new social theory that is not theory in any traditional logical sense...
Parker's troubles stemmed from his innovative seat-racing concept, by which the most qualified oarsmen are selected for the first boat. This process calls for two boats to race, and then, after one oarsman from each exchange places, the boats race again, and the times are compared...
...side street in a Basque village just south of San Sebastian in Northern Spain. He found himself thrown against the side of a building with a machine-gun pointed at his throat by a member of the civil guard. Prior to this visit, Fascism was, for me, a storybook concept, a photograph of Hitler...
...Persian Gulf oil wells in the event of another Arab oil embargo. In an interview with TIME last week, he argued that the nuclear situation in the Middle East "is going to evolve anyway. The real question then is: What is the best way to have it evolve? My concept of an Israeli nuclear deterrent may create the context in which the Israelis will feel secure enough to move toward a permanent settlement...