Word: conceptions
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...decision to reject the policy of massive retaliation. A declaration to that effect might help to reassure the Chinese Communists that the United States intends to contain them, not destroy them. It would go far toward re-assuring our allies and Asian opinion that we are committed to the concept of limited war in self-defense. Above all, a clear assertion of the American determination to resist aggression with as little loss to enemy civilians as possible would provide a needed clarification of our moral position in the world...
...fears, I oppose a great hope. The physical discoveries, which have shaken the spiritual faith of some men, are also shaking the philosophic foundations of materialism. I have noticed a new, extremely encouraging disposition on the part of some leading nonreligious scientists. They are beginning to acknowledge that the concept of divine creation should no longer be dogmatically excluded from rational speculation about the origin of the universe. To my mind, there are today startling possibilities for a religious break-through into the secular mind. The time is ripening for a marriage of religion and science...
...satisfy psychiatrists either: a crime might be coolly prepared and still be the act of a madman. In fact, what has kept psychiatry and the law at loggerheads is the lawyers' attempt to force the psychiatrists to testify in legal terms (insanity is a legal, not a medical concept), while the psychiatrists have tried to force the lawyers to argue in the complex, changing terms of psychiatry...
...serious students, but it has somehow failed to attract men of HDC and Advocate bent. If it has failed, it is not the fault of Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry or his able, energetic Senior Tutor, Daniel S. Cheever. For Ferry has attempted to adhere closely to the original concept of the House system...
...endanger more lives. Moral anguish, physical suffering and fatigue bring Krause to the edge of senselessness. The commander's personal battle, fought on the borderline of human endurance, is even more impressive than the naval action. Author Forester has written a war novel whose real hero is the concept of duty...