Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussed such a plan with De-fensejSecretary Clark Clifford and went ahead with his candidacy only after Johnson rejected the idea. However, Kennedy said, the commission plan was not originally his nor first advanced by him; Johnson, in a conversation with Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen had "welcomed" the notion of a commission and asked Sorensen for specific suggestions. The White House remained officially silent, but aides regarded the scheme as an ultimatum, or blackmail. That, Kennedy said, was an "incredible distortion...
...notion that imprisonment corrects criminals is a surprisingly recent idea. Before the 18th century, prisons were mainly used not to punish but to detain the accused or hostages-the debtor until he paid, for example. To combat crime, Europeans castrated rapists, cut off thieves' hands, tore out perjurers' tongues. England boasted 200 hanging offenses. When crime still flourished, reformers argued that overkill punishment is no deterrent. In 1786, the Philadelphia Quakers established incarceration as a humane alternative. Seeking penitence (source of "penitentiary"), the Quakers locked convicts in solitary cells until death or release. So many died or went...
Some more speculation: Babe's use of film and other media conflicts with his rather pedestrian notion of a crowd of puppets--clown-like figures unable to stand straight who exist only insofar as they are manipulated by the tribunes or swayed by mass instinct. The crowd is conceived as pantomime, the movies as a sophisticated blend of film and drama, and the two styles belong to two different kinds of production. Shakespeare made the crowd puppet-like enough; Babe extends the metaphor and is heavy-handed...
...recommendations did not win support from the CEP. "We did not accept the notion that Independent Study should be used to generate new courses," Ford said yesterday...
Hamilton went further to discount the possibility of an "armed black revolution," claiming that "riots are not preludes to revolution and the notion of black separatism is not at all pervasive in the ghetto. But the import of riots must be understood in terms of the grave psychological dilemma which blacks in America are breaking out of." Taken to its conclusion, Hamilton's implication is that blacks are through with the self-demeaning black mentality which is reinforced institutionally by the subtle and pervasive racism of which the Kerner Report spoke...