Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabethan days every dramatist was a poet, every playgoer a poetry lover. But nowadays poets generally leave their Muse behind when they go to town. To most moderns, poetic drama means selfconscious, little-theatre stuff-&-nonsense. Ambitious Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador), seeing no good reason for the modern notion that Poetry is by nature a bad actor, has tried his hand at a verse-play. His first attempt. Panic, took him 16 months to write.* Playgoing readers will find it an exciting experiment, will hope Author MacLeish's example may attract some others...
...Revised Version the Hebrew word, R'ēm, is translated "wild ox." During the Middle Ages the belief was prevalent that the savage unicorn was soothed by the sight of a virgin, would approach softly and lay his head in a true virgin's lap. Though this notion gave rise to no little scandal, no one managed to trap the elusive beast by virgins or otherwise. A bit of unicorn horn ground to powder was regarded by a medieval physician as the most potent remedy he could administer, but because undisputed horns turned up so rarely the price...
...Hollywood--it's a dull place; I don't stay there much." Miss Moran dispelled the popular notion that actors are overworked and termed life in the film colony a lazy existence. "People talk about the glamour of Hollywood--take it from me there isn't such a thing...
...sell anything to the Americans and the English," said Grandson Millet. "They know nothing about art. They buy only pictures with pedigrees, but have not the slightest notion whether they are genuine or not. All you have to do is ask a fabulous price...
Watt ridiculed the general belief that Massachusetts is the leader in social legislation and stated that it had become a popular notion to consider the Bay State a moving force in bettering the condition of the working class. Such a belief, he stated, had no basis in fact...