Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their War. The notion that the South Vietnamese must ultimately take responsibility for their own defense is hardly new. To John F. Kennedy, it was an article of faith that he repeated often: "It is their war and they will have to win it." But the fact is that for the past three years, U.S. troops have taken charge of the war, making virtual wards of the South Vietnamese and consigning a third of them to pacification guard duty. That strategy was originally built on the assumption that the massive infusion of half a million American fighting men would enable...
...tool, a bone from a skeleton which, when used as an extension of the arm, adds considerably to the creature's strength. The discovery is executed in brilliant slow motion montage of the pre-ape destroying the skeleton with the bone, establishing Kubrick and Clarke's subjective anthropological notion that the discovery of the tool was identical to that of the weapon. The "dawn of man," then, is represented by a coupling of progress and destruction; a theme of murder runs through 2001 simultaneously with that of progress. Ultimately, Kubrick shows an ambiguous spiritual growth through physical death...
...Only when physicians take time to explain problems in laymen's language, only when the patient is voluntarily involved in deciding what the proper treatment is, and only when social as well as medical assistance is provided will patients willingly follow through with medical care and reverse the common notion that the poor are unwilling to cooperate. To treat symptoms and then send a patient back into the environment that breeds these illnesses is inhumane folly...
There is a widely-held belief among tennis players that playing squash ruins their game. Three superstars from Harvard's squash team hope to prove that notion mistaken...
...first concern is that some students have the mistaken notion that the College is a haven which will shelter them from the drug laws," Seymour said...