Word: locus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestion is that in addition to whatever rights might come from the capacity that the fetus has for suffering, it also represents a value. It represents the locus of human striving (the human strivings of others than the fetus) and the instrumentalities of human strivings. The fetus does represent a potential focus of human affections and relationships, of human capacities and the like. These values are, however, the values of presently fully rational beings...
This tranquil atmosphere of confidence extends far beyond the capital Only a few troop carriers are seen today on the streets of Carmona, the center of the thriving North Angolan coffee industry and a prime locus of guerrilla activity since 1961 when the rebellion broke out only a few miles away...
There are both long and short retorts to this conception of the university. A short answer is that only the belligerently naive can still conceive of the university as a locus of disinterested truth. As Clark Kerr (cited in Stephan Leibfried's excellent book, Die angepasste Universitat...
...studios provided us with a locus for dreams. Ultimately, though, when the real implications of that vision began to come home to us, the studios and their dream became superfluous. The movies did away with the illusion that life was somehow "real", solid, its events explainable, united by some coherent logic. Whatever their story, the technique of the movies has given us the full picture: fragmentation, flux, appearances changing twenty-four times a second. Movies (ironically the product of those self-deceived studios) tell the truth: they are the show-and-tell of absurdity, the perfect expression of the flickering...
...polled the delegates in 116 of the U.N.'s 127 missions. In 39 of the missions, diplomats either declined to respond, had no opinion or could not be reached. By more than 2 to 1-the actual vote was 53 to 24 -the remainder preferred to maintain the locus quo. The delegates who favored a relocation grouped around predictably political lines. All but one of the eight Arab diplomats who responded to TIME'S poll wanted out. Four of the five Communists who agreed to discuss the question also wanted...