Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenery, by Richard W. Kerry, mixes dash and economy in a proportion certain Harvard designers, particularly those faced with shoestring budgets, ought to emulate. To Kerry's further credit, he has given his sets a faintly futuresque motif. One can admire this without buying the companion notion, voiced in the program notes, that The Millionairess is Shaw's "final praise of the ridiculous," or the implication that Shaw was anticipating, even influencing, the Theatre of the Absurd...
...conference never went beyond the phrase "exchanging ideas." At a news conference early in the proceedings there was some talk of representatives of the Nixon administration coming to hear the ideas exchanged, but they never showed up. And Carl M. Kaysen, co-chairman of the seminar, specifically rejected the notion that any policy statements could come of an international seminar of that kind...
...parenthesis, "Indeed, those who confidently assert that direct political action breeds 'disrespect for the law' should look more closely at the facts. In Montgomery, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights demonstrations, the Negro crime rate declined almost to zero." In making this statement Kennedy puts forth a notion which pervades the book, but is never clarified. For he supports in the name of traditional dissent many forms of protest whose aim is to break the law and confront the established order. In citing the Alabama protests he recognizes the limited aims of particular acts of civil disobedience...
...most of them are "helpless" people who seem to have had fouralternativesinlife: activism,conformity, insanity, criminality. The criminal, who may be escaping madness, commonly seeks vengeance against real or symbolic tormentors. He is sure that society is wrong, not he. Ironically, the whole legal system tends to confirm his notion. For one thing, trials are mainly contests between lawyers, not impartial efforts to diagnose misfits. The very fact that most criminals are not caught makes the caught ones feel that getting captured was their only mistake. Worse, they learn that money talks: most defendants cannot afford the skilled lawyers...
...opinion surveys an important political tool. Even as simple mirrors of public opinion they can have far-reaching side effects. For instance, no one knows how many voters last month were swayed by a tendency to jump aboard a Nixon band wagon. Leading pollsters, including Gallup, unequivocally reject the notion that there may be a so-called "band-wagon effect." They cite Hubert Humphrey's dramatic comeback as evidence for their view. Still others feel that the polls may actually have helped Humphrey by generating an "underdog" sympathy vote. Whichever of these effects was dominant, it seems obvious that...