His conception for the work in Massachusetts, to be called "Training Ground for Democracy," was that it would mimic and mock the kind of training that is used by the United States military to help soldiers adapt to unfamiliar cultures.
(The Parc des Princes, originally budgeted at $12m, cost $18m.) His conception for the "Big O" stadium was grandiose, in a style that might be called space-age fascist: it featured an enormous, inclined tower, the tallest such structure in the world, holding a retractable roof suspended from thick cables and looming over the stadium like a praying mantis over a turtle.
Of his conception for "Tumbling Man," MacMurtrie says, "I wanted to make a heavy machine that would perform a childlike act and the notion of somersaulting was the most simple, naïve and primitive action of joy, rotating your body".
The editor claims full responsibility for procrastinating over the post's production and publication, blaming his conception of time for the delay.
The remaining parts trace the consequences of his conception of substance for epistemology, psychology, physics, and ethics.
Mr. Goldstein, who directed the recent Broadway revival of "Godspell," has gone back to "The Matchmaker" not just for his conception of the leading lady but also for his production's comedic pulse.
This position and the arguments which he uses to support it is crucial for his overall political philosophy and for his conception of Liberalism.
Ficino and Pico were Agrippa's source for philosophical texts that formed the theoretical basis for his conception of magic, the works of Plato, the Alexandrian Neoplatonists (especially Plotinus), and the Hermetic texts, all of which Ficino had translated into Latin.
Such an idea of opposed dynamic forces seems to form something of a model for Hegel's idea of contradiction and the starting point for his conception of reciprocal recognition.
In 1963, Clarke received the Stuart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute for his conception of the communications satellite.
