Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theories. "Japan," says Yamamoto, "has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments." How Admiral Yamamoto developed and perfected this concept was demonstrated all too clearly in his opening moves in the Pacific. The exact number of Japan's carriers is not known: estimates vary between eight and 13. Japanese carriers are small, with space for from 24 to 60 planes, compared with U.S. carriers' 80 to 100. They are fast, running to 30 knots. And they are daringly designed, with no island above the flight deck and funnels aimed astern like huge...
...have a democratic governmental scheme. But, as has been pointed out for years, there is little that is equal in the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness between the worlds of upper and lower Park Avenue. Now, with a war for the preservation of this nonexistent concept on the nation's threshold, there is every likelihood that the long-awaited extension of democracy will come with the battles. If our guess is not wrong, in other words, there will be no "bloated rich" after...
Johnson argues that each of the "successive lunges of the American people" has been in "the direction of more effective control by the bulk of the people" (away from the Founding Fathers' concept of a republic governed by "the best people"). The people, he says, elected the New Deal "to abolish the theoretical neutrality of the Government as between man and man and to convert it into an instrument in the hands of the masses to be used by them to promote their welfare...
...pupils, which is not to say that it is the last word in musical anarchy, but only that it represents in the language of notes what Finnegan's Wake does in the language of words, or Guernica in painting a dissolution of the old formal bases of art, the concept of tonality in music, of grammar in writing, and of pictorialism in the visual arts. And so to appreciate Pierrot, the listener's hearing apparatus must go through a similar process of dissolution, and come out on the other side of tonality, free from tonal inhibitions...
...competent North American gentlemen-men of reputation and standing in their fields in the States. Each is whisked away to the best hotel in town; he changes his tie and is then ready to begin his mission, "Good Will." As he begins to nibble around the edges of this concept, he finds it one into which it is difficult to sink his teeth-it jumps back like a playful puppy every time he looks at it-as he slides back a bit in his leather chair in the lobby of the Bolivar and tries again. Four mornings later, over breakfast...