Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense, Adele Simmons '63, dean of students at Princeton, Harvard Overseer, and a committee member, says it was only a failure of expectations. Simmons said there was a prevalent belief on campus that the Bressler Commission would come up with the definitive answers to major questions about the concept of higher education in the next 20 years. The report couldn't fulfill that function, she says...
Davin would also like to see an increase in public ownership of the utilities in the city--"a return to the 1930s concept of municipal socialism...
...landscape is bleak. But the Bicentennial finds some thoughtful Americans seeking a renewed sense of covenant and virtue, even though the concept embarrasses many. Few speak of moral progress or Utopian hopes in a moment like ours. Yet it is possible that today too little is made of those rare virtues that we do possess. The Catholic bishops' committee that came to scold stayed also to praise. "Many of the new emphases are positive and praiseworthy: sensitivity to the dignity and fundamental equality of all men and women; increased concern for individual self-realization; broadened perception of the moral...
...said the goal for each of the schools is to implement the "revolving concept," by which schools with excellent loan collection can sustain the loan program without new federal capital, supporting new loans with income from outstanding loans...
Dylan has this concept of "the flood," akin to Hunter S. Thompson's "Edge:" one must sever all connections with artificial identities, reject everything that is taught, believe only what experience has shown you to be true. The danger of course is madness and despair, and Dylan has flirted with both of these (listen to "Dirge" on Planet Waves: "I went out all along Broadway/And I felt that place within/That hollow place where martyrs weep/And angels play with sin"). In this light, all these songs about "nothing" constitute a portrait of Dylan confronting his dread in a number of ways...