Word: conceptions
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...such as to allow one man to be chastised by society while another, equally guilty of the same things, is respected and admired. Hiss was sent to jail for perjury, and Chambers not only goes free but at the same time becomes a respected man. Is this a democratic concept of justice...
...Whittaker Chambers' concept of God becoming a new criterion for good Americanism ? God forbid! There's a peculiar tide running here. It includes such divergent figures as Niebuhr, Buckley (of Yale) and Billy Graham. It puts the Spirit of God and the mind of man in opposing camps. It implies that any effort to think through a man's problems on a rational basis is somehow ungodly, and very likely Red as well...
...time for someone to speak up for those whose concept of God is not based on a deprecation of man's scientific and intellectual possibilities ? . . . Plenty of good Americans can oppose Communism without embracing mysticism, even if Whittaker Chambers...
Decrying an English writer's concept that the idea of the community is too big and too various to be grasped except theoretically, Conant stressed the importance of a community sentiment. "I suggest," he said, "that in these days when national service has had its impact on the lives of so many young men, we need to do all we can to nourish this feeling for the community among the citizens of this land...
...might be used as a bargaining weapon against the West. The European Army repels him because it confines Germany to military forces inside an international body. Proved anti-Nazi though he is, he talks like any Nazi general in his scorn of the French and Italians as soldiers. "The concept of a European army," says Schumacher, "is a fallacy, because six invalids cannot combine to make one athlete...