Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the six stories in this book are a study of the dead hand of the past on a living person; a study of the Manichaean heresy (the notion that the Devil is as powerful as God and that they struggle for supremacy); the galloping putrefaction of American letters; the galloping putrefaction of moral and political values. Author Wilson has also chosen to write literally (and incidentally) about sexual intercourse. As a result, Memoirs of Hecate* County will probably be hailed as an event in gaminess...
...their roots deeper or let their branches spread so wide. During the 22 years of the Neilson era, Smith became the biggest women's college in the world, and one of the most prestigious in the U.S. Neilson believed in educational equality for women, but he scorned the notion that college should 36 a trade school for girls...
...must use our greatest ingenuity and effort as manufacturers to manufacture in the face of very great obstacles . . . as labor leaders to meet the problem of a falling productivity rate among workers ... as Government officials and legislators to get us clear of unnecessary entanglements. . . . We must popularize the notion of work. A recent opinion poll shows that less than 45% of factory workers belonging to unions think they should turn out as much work as they are able . . . among non-union workers 60% think [so]. . . . If this represents the attitude of union men . . . then I think the union leaders have...
...Else But? The Chinese-some of whom have not the foggiest notion what a press conference is-kept asking in different ways: When were the Americans leaving? Did the General know of the bad behavior of his troops in Shanghai...
...democracies, pundits and plain people alike were simply afraid of using the four-letter words of contemporary politics. They refused to recognize or admit that the Left was indeed implacable-as it was in Russia or in the words of Britain's Harold Laski. Like the notion of sex in a previous generation, this thought was too dangerous, or too horrible. It was not so much that the democrats did not have a creed as that they found it difficult and embarrassing to reconcile their belief with their actions...