Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week at Indianapolis the A. A. A. S. council officially approved the plan for some of the world's most learned men to form an international body of thinkers and knowers that might light up a world darkened by malice, ignorance and fear. Dreamily unpractical though such a notion was in the light of past experience, Secretary Moulton began to draw up U. S. contributions to a world platform on which a World Association of Science, if formed, could stand...
...author's plan is simple and firmly executed. He first prepares the reader with an accurate account of Bergson's theory of knowledge and with this as a background leads the reader into an extension of Bergson's basic notion of "intuition" beyond the realms of ordinary perception into aesthetic experience...
...second part of the work, called "A Theory of Art", is the transference of the general notion of intuition into the domain of aesthetic experience. Art in the "means of revealing directly felt presentations". "The artist 'seeks beneath' to bring the aesthetic discovery to the surface." (p. 71). Mr. Szathmary's discussion shows very clearly that this conception of aesthetic experience, closely connected as it is with Bergson's distrust of analysis, can do little more than point out that such experience exists...
...Generalissimo Franco, stated that upon reopening of the U. S. consulate "we would not infer that we were fully recognized by the United States Government." This caused Secretary of State Cordell Hull to change his mind about reopening the consulate. He gave Mr. Chapman a vacation, thus squelching any notion, however remote, that Washington had been about to recognize the Spanish Rightist Government...
...nature and good sense wherever he may find them. Among the Icelanders he finds considerable good nature and a general sanity too unmitigated to be of much current use to a loyal inhabitant of contemporary Europe. But Poet Auden is not so loyal to Europe as to deny the notion-suggested by the sight of Icelanders clumsily gallivanting at a country fair-that plain human nature is the essential thing to be loyal...