Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doth ask: (and a vital question) What be the status of life in this activity? And doth answer that it be "content". Whereupon this doth imply the interrelationship of life and nature and that one cannot be known apart from the other. And this, methinks, is a mighty fine notion, and one in a large degree be accepted by science...
Whereupon from this principle, and many others, he doth set down-as is the business of philosophers-a notion upon which a systematic metaphysical cosomology ought to be constructed. And this be the far-reaching notion "that the energetic activity considered in physics is the emotional intensity entertained in life." Which, bless my soul, is an exceeding fine idea for it doth relate the activities of life and nature into the creative reality; and doth make us and our experiences an integral part of the whole. But this meaningless to those who know not philosophy...
RETURN TO PHILOSOPHY - C. E. M. Joad- Dutton ($2.50). A University of London professor does his burly British bit to disabuse amateur philosophers of the notion that there are two sides to a question. Good reading for Tories. WHERE LIFE IS BETTER - James Rorty - John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). Report of "An unsentimental American journey" across the U. S., an attack on optimistic illusions. Title: satiric. STONEWALL JACKSON- G. F. R. Henderson, C. B. - Longmans, Green ($5). Reprint of the famed standard biography long used as a text in the British War College and at West Point...
Buttering Chancellor Hitler judiciously last week, Premier Mussolini's personal newsorgan Il Popolo d'Italia brandished in everybody's face the very notion over which most persons of Peace & Goodwill were wringing their hands, namely, that if Italy gets Ethiopia, then Germany will eventually get back the colonies seized from her during the War by the Allies. Benito Mussolini, lumping Japan, Germany and Italy together as "unsatisfied peoples," declared that their needs constitute a problem which the League of Nations is unable to overcome and that "cannot be overcome without Italy...
...earlier book of Author Sugimoto's, A Daughter of the Samurai, has been a best seller (80,000 copies), gave Author Christopher Morley "a secret notion that it will go on for years & years, making friends for itself and for the brave woman who wrote it, and also-this would please her most-friends for Japan." A Daughter of the Nohfu gave some readers last week the secret notion that no matter how Japanesily you slice it, Little Rollo is still baloney...