Word: conceptions
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...write of the wish that comes true ... a terrifying concept. I think my stories have some quality of the opening of a forbidden box, and that it is this, rather than violence, sex . . . that gives them the drive...
...greatest orator,* but a statesman's words, unlike a poet's, need power to give them weight; Churchill, testy and grim, was not in power. Bull-necked Ernest Bevin had rushed into 1946 snorting to U.N. and to the world a great commoner's bold concept of democracy. But Bevin was sick, and he, too, as the year went on, was content to see the bold words fly where the real power was. Bernard M. Baruch's long, thin hands held the world's No. 1 problem; at year's end it advanced from...
...suggest Justice Robert Jackson? In his speech at the opening of the Nürnberg trials he presented more clearly and forcefully than any other living person, the basic American concept that man must defend his fellow man against injustices...
...this civilization had accomplished marvels. It had an exact chronology, a "more accurate knowledge of astronomy" than that of Egypt under the Ptolemies, an arithmetical system involving the concept of zero, a complex hieroglyphic writing (much of which is still undeciphered), highly accomplished arts & crafts. Yet the Maya were aboriginal people-without metal tools of any kind, without beasts of burden, without even a wheel...
...will be on the inside receiving brickbats, instead of outside throwing them. We must be alert and liberal in the sense of Abraham Lincoln's concept that the individual is the complex heart of society. We must not be a stuffy and pompous party...