Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were busy copying Western manners, they considered the U.S. and Britain male. Then, thanks to Anglo-Saxon nonresistance to Japanese aggression, the Japanese reversed their opinion of the Western powers' sex. Pearl Harbor and the later U.S. "weakness" in declaring Manila an open city reinforced the Japs' notion. What Japan needs to become a cooperative member of world society, according to Gorer, is less domestic discipline, more virile discipline from outside...
...Lamb of God, an ancient symbol dear to most Christians, is an offensive notion to the Japanese. To them the lamb is "a dirty, stupid and cringing animal." The word lamb is "an epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." Thus, in Christianity and Crisis last week, wrote George S. Noss, Japan-born son of U.S. missionaries, himself a missionary in rural Japan for eleven years, now a teacher of Japanese at Columbia University. His thesis: the reason Christian missionaries to Japan have converted only one-half of 1% of the population is largely that...
Albert Einstein's position as one of the great popular idols of the 20th Century is a historic phenomenon of hero worship. Few of his millions of admirers understand his relativity theory, fewer still have any notion of how it might benefit mankind. He has been called atheist, radical, many another hard name. Yet Manhattan's famed Riverside Church has already enshrined him in stone among the great scientists of all time, and conservative heads of state delight to honor...
...Lewis Mumford, voluminous writer on architecture and city planning: "An outspoken revolutionary, often quoted with approval by conservatives who obviously have no notion of the implications of his philosophy...
...their author does. Mrs. Lowe bakes her own bread (see cut), keeps house for her husband, Dr Elias Avery Lowe, an Oxford paleographer, who joined the staff of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study in 1936. Her hyphenated surname is the result of her mistaken notion that married Britons always join surnames...