Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shadings were enough to muddle a stenotypist's ear, and in fact did just that. Dr. Walter Heller's remark at one point that "consumer satiety rears its ugly head" was transcribed as "consumer satanity." Dr. Heller was subsequently asked to define this interesting new economic concept. "The tendency of the consumer to be perverse-he sometimes thwarts us by refusing to react to certain things in the way we want him to," Heller quickly replied. Still, Heller maintains, there is basically no such thing as consumer satiation...
...integration fervor. There are ominous signs. But there is no evidence that the Administration has any intention to desert integration as a national goal. The liberal concept that it is best to assimilate minorities mainly through the public schools was in trouble long before Nixon took office...
...central campus to which all of a district's pupils would travel?again affording economies and the possibilities for superior libraries and teaching facilities as well as integration. The idea is proving most appealing to cities having between 100,000 and 500,000 population. Pittsburgh has modified the concept by planning five new "great high schools," all designed to serve large, racially diverse areas...
...also be aided by pairing formerly all-white and all-black schools so that each contains half the usual grades and also half the enrollment of both of the previous schools?provided pairing does not force whites to flee the area. New York City envisioned a "linear" school concept, in which schools would be strung out over a new expressway and the highway would provide rapid transportation between mixed neighborhoods. The idea was abandoned when expressway plans fell through...
CHANGE (1967): As part of going modern, each nation in Asia and in Africa wishes to establish its identity. Nationalism is one expression of this search for identity-that is a Western concept. The West, having invented nationalism, now seeks to transcend it-or at any rate to moderate its claims. What is certainly true about the West is that we ourselves are going through a period of radical change. The gulf between us today and us tomorrow may be an even bigger gulf than the one between East and West. It is said of today's youth that...