Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notion that marijuana is safer for the user than alcohol, or at least no worse, has become one of the soothing and glibly repeated cliches of the day. Increasing numbers of medical men agree with it, among them James L. Goddard, who recently resigned as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Alarmed by widespread and often unverified acceptance of the idea, the A.M.A. and the National Research Council last week took a joint potshot at the drug in what the A.M.A. called a "major position paper" (translation: a report that falls just short of being official A.M.A. policy...
...freewheeling, parlor-game approach. Not long ago, in an eleven-page feature on the soul mystique, Esquire half seriously argued that there are only two kinds of people in the world: the haves and the havenots?soul-wise. Others have taken up the sport, which prompts the engaging notion that important personalities of history and legend can be classed in these terms...
...experiences. But even last year, some American film makers were still shy about dealing with the subject too openly: Richard Brooks eliminated most of the overt homosexual overtones from the characters of Dick and Perry in In Cold Blood. Screen Writers Robert Benton and David Newman abandoned their original notion of Clyde Barrow's relationship with C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde...
...were the only possible ideas and should be forced on an administration that, after all, had only been facing the same problems for an average of 20 years. So now that I'm too old to be taught anything different (22), I'm stuck with the ridiculous notion that freedom to follow convictions should be granted both sides of the question, and the suspicion that maybe, somewhere, somebody over 30 knows something I don't. Shucks...
...worker's car and TV set are often bought on credit, a relatively new notion in France and one whose in escapable rhythm of monthly bills has proved a painful education. Wives often must work to make ends meet; workers seldom have any savings to fall back on in times of sudden disablement or job loss; life insurance is virtually unknown...