Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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European Delays. Ironically, it was the Europeans who thought up the idea of an air bus-only to fumble away their chances to cash in on it first. Technicians from Scandinavian Airlines broached the notion at the 1963 Paris Air Show. It was four years later when France, Britain and West Germany got together to form a manufacturing consortium to build an air bus. Their ef forts have met with one delay after another, and the British have yet to build even a test model of the RollsRoyce engine that is supposed to power the plane. As matters stand...
...search for a vantage point--an "identical subject-object of history'--from which to view the disparate and fluid arrangements of human affairs. To look at history from any but this vantage point would be to obtain at best an incomplete, at worst a distorted or ideological notion of affairs...
Without some history and sociology, then, Lichtheim's notion of a "dialectic between the French Revolution and German Counter-Revolution" is not overly helpful. Nor do his unfortunately diffuse comments on ideology represent a theoretical advance: in the 20's Mannheim was rejoicing at the possibilities for intellectual advance provided by the collision of cultures and the dissolution of old systems. Still, look the book over. Even when Lichtheim loses his battles, which is far from always, he does it with panache...
Saturday morning the participants were quickly broken up into small groups of seven or eight: a few students, a few trustees, and an administrator or two. Miss Batts recognized that much of the trustees' antagonism at the previous meeting was a visceral reaction to the notion of "student power," and she emphasized repeatedly to the four trustees around the table of the Hilles seminar room, "We don't want to run the College. That is impossible, ridiculous, and stupid. We want to be recognized as rational and responsible...
McCarthy's day began with an early morning appearance at Milford High School> "Some people think America has to live in fear," he told the students. They think they can't really sleep nights for fear of the country being overthrown by morning." He urged rejection of the notion that North Vietnam and Communist China pose any real threat to America's security...