Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Plain Talk, "go on to something more positive." Says Chamberlain: "The fight [against Communists] has been won domestically . . . You don't have to keep telling people that Communists have techniques of getting into organizations and are pretty good at spying . . . We want to revive the John Stuart Mill concept of liberalism. We feel we're rescuing an old word from misuse." Among those who did their bit to help rescue the old liberalism in the first issue were George Sokolsky, Raymond Moley and John T. Flynn...
Among other Hollywood phenomena, Dr. Powdermaker found strong elements of totalitarianism: "the concept of people as property and as objects to be manipulated, highly concentrated and personalized power for power's sake; an amorality, and an atmosphere of breaks, continuous anxiety and crises . . ." The end result is "business inefficiency, deep frustration . . . and a high number of unentertaining second-and third-rate movies...
...everyone knows that Radcliffe isn't really co-educational. This regrettably mistaken young lady, like so many people fresh to the Cambridge scene, was fooled by an amorphous concept called Joint Instruction...
...merciful Providence, our forces fighting under the standard of that greatest hope and inspiration of mankind, the United Nations, have liberated this ancient capital city of Korea. It has been freed from the despotism of Communist rule and its citizens once more have the opportunity for that immutable concept of life which holds invincibly to the primacy of individual liberty and personal dignity...
...attacking the Administration or the Congress," said Tom Dewey's even voice of Republican opposition this week. "I am desperately concerned with where we are and where we are going [because] the whole concept of human freedom is in danger of being wiped off the face of the earth...