Word: concepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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East-West Love. In the philosophical concept of Yang and Yin, the two elements grow and shrink each at the other's expense, but never wholly obliterate each ather, so that the end result is a kind of universal harmony. This is more or less what happens backstage at Flower Drum Song, according to testimony not only from pressagents-those untrustworthy upbeat philosophers-but according to anybody else connected with the show. And practically everybody gives the credit to the Oriental qualities of patience and politeness. Says Production Supervisor Jerry Whyte, a tough veteran of R. & H. shows since...
...Martin concept: replace live professors wherever possible with filmed lectures, projectors and closed-circuit television rigs. The project is going strong: 919 students at Compton (enrollment: 4,800) taking a first-year psychology course need never face a flesh-and-blood lecturer, and 1,099 students in freshman algebra and English courses are film-fed most of the time. Their education is largely seen to by a woman worker in a central control room, who feeds the proper reels into the correct machines, and a faculty-member monitor, who patrols four TV theaters at a time, sees that sets work...
...While advocates of an all-out nuclear plane program envision the plane as some kind of perpetual motion aerial weapons carrier hovering on the fringes of enemy territory, this concept is impractical in the days of heat-seeking defensive missiles such as Sidewinder because of the high temperature of a nuclear power plant. "It would," said one Washington wag, "just about suck the missiles off their assembly lines into the exhaust stacks...
...future "where people are even more different from one another than they are now," Riesman concluded, "national character may become an even more tenuous concept than at present...
Protestant, Catholic and Jew, as Will Herberg pointed out (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955), now form a spiritual tripod on which the U.S. conception of religion rests, and, says Marty, "the old concept of a 'Protestant' America is as obsolete as the side-wheel showboat, the cigar-store Indian or the Fourth of July oration. We all think of these things as part of 'our' culture-but where do we go to find them?" Marty suggests that Protestantism is insecure because it senses itself to be a minority (although statistically it is not), while Roman Catholicism...