Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Improbable, earnest and exciting, The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is improved by Claude Rains' spectacular overacting and weakened by the notion it embodies that a strange munitions ring, meeting on a yacht, was entirely responsible...
...Admonish the faithful that it is a matter of experience that the public presentation on the screen of scenes of shame and crime insidiously dulls the sensitive edge of right conscience. Absolutely false standards of moral conduct, at first disapproved, soon tolerated, and finally accepted, result from the erroneous notion that the fundamental moral laws of right and wrong could possibly change to meet the laxity of our times...
...James's story, covering the entire training period of a probationary nurse, seems more like a sentimental prospectus than a moving picture. That it fails to do the second may be because pictures like Night Nurse, Life Begins, Registered Nurse have already acquainted the cinema public with the notion that a pretty girl in a nurse's uniform can be counted on to perform superhuman feats of courage, loyalty, good humor, devotion to duty and dexterity with any item of hospital apparatus from an ether mask to a bedpan...
...Retcliffe. As a melodramatic interlude in his book Goedsche pictured a secret assemblage of the "Elect of Israel," gathered in a Prague cemetery around the tomb of a mythical "Holy Rabbi." The gathering plots the destruction of the world much as do the Elders in their Protocols. Goedsche's notion, besides inspiring the author of the Protocols, lived on in its own right. In 1893 German editors reported it as the authentic speech of a Jewish rabbi to his congregation, crediting the story to an "eminent Englishman, Sir John Retcliffe." By 1912 the story became the "stenographic report...
...application of Truth, the notion in itself as a gauge for the criticism of our mundane institutions has nothing really objectionable, excepting that it is utterly fallacious and thus stupid. That is, you can not criticize, on a basis of Truth, the social legislation of any other of our country and speak in defense of banking as the author, of the letter published under the title "Dissenting Zealots," has attempted. You can not apply this Truth in the criticism of the legislative, political and economic efforts of the present Administration. The reason is obvious: Our very system of government...