Word: conceptive
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...Originally, I never wanted to come to Harvard because I really thought it was a lot of nerdy, straight-laced people," she says. "I didn't have any concept of class other than my own [class...
...side of the gate betrays its age: "Depart to Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind." These words designate the gate a relic, a memento from a time that has surely left us behind. The inscription, composed by Harvard President Charles William Eliot, class of 1893, elegantly expresses a concept of the university that seems archaic and foreign these days. Eliot and his contemporaries envisioned Harvard not only as an institution of unrivaled scholarship, but as a place for the molding of American citizens...
...reduction plan. But pandering isn't inevitable: four years ago, Ross Perot and Paul Tsongas were calling for a new 50 cent-per-gal. tax to be phased in over a number of years. The Big Three automakers and oil giants Chevron and Conoco were onboard with the basic concept. Why? They had come around to the view held by every other advanced nation: cheap oil is costly to the environment, the economy and national security, and raising taxes to reduce consumption is a smart way to fund government...
...need these limits in order to "democratize" the campaign fundraising process. Instead of only having "fatcats" fundraising for our candidates, all those "average citizens" who have a few hundred dollars to spare can determine which candidates will run and get a chance to be heard. But this is a concept of democratization that would only make sense to someone with the salary of a law professor or a federal bureaucrat. I don't know a single person in my family or neighborhood who would even think of giving something near a week's paycheck to a political candidate...
...sure, all this only covers a part of the play: two or three viewings would probably give a fuller understanding of all that the play seeks to question and propose (a concept of "graduality," the exact meaning of the rituals). As it is, however, the play is rather lengthy because of its ponderous monologues. In addition, a certain rushed atmosphere underlies much of the production: rapidly delivered lines, pauses that tended to break up the timing of the speech, a struggle with props painfully lit up in silhouette...