Word: concepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public image" is the unifying concept for the album. Clearly uncomfortable with the sneering, puke-spitting persona created for him by Pistols manager Malcolm MacLaren (who gets singled out for abuse in "Lowlife"), Lydon wants to defy public expectations while still maintaining an audience, a limited public image. Unfortunately, it is Lydon's purposed demarche, his frankly experimental music, which fails most miserably...
...governor's proposal takes away our town meeting," another Fair Share representative noted, "and that is an extremely radical concept that we shook off 200 years ago with the other King...
...A.A.M. wants crop prices raised to 90% of "parity," an antiquated concept founded on the argument that farm prices should have been rising as fast as nonfarm prices since World War I. Agriculture Department economists scoff at this demand; they say that 90% parity would drive retail food prices -the biggest single factor in the U.S.'s inflation problem -up by 16% this year, on top of the 10% increase...
...similar reasoning, Einstein also showed that the Newtonian concept of ab solute length was obsolete...
...students: "A lot of training in the military tells you how you should act, but it doesn't give you the why. We're at a stage of moving from responding to what other people tell us to do to having more choice." Not an easy concept for military men, but as Stockdale puts it, "No philosophical survival kits are issued" when man goes...