Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such problems defy easy solution. The Faculty is bitterly divided over these questions. But the new Dean--with Faculty support--must tackle them forthrightly. One thing, however, is certain. Should the new Dean resist the notion that law students should get some sort of credit for tackling society's ills during the academic year, he will only intensify already smouldering student discontent...
Youngsters especially reflect the McLuhan notion that plot is less important than image. Says Klein: "Television-oriented people don't care about stories. There's no need to tell a story with a beginning, middle and end. They care about people doing things, and all at once." What makes Spy successful, adds Klein, is not plot ("They are silly or nonexistent") but an interesting and warm relationship that is projected by the two lead spies, Bill Cosby and Bob Gulp. The Monkees' story line defies logic, but the show is a hit with the kids. U.N.C.L.E. swings...
Boyden, too, is after challenging situations. Abroad, the firm is chipping away at the fusty once-with-a-company, always-with-a-company notion of European executives. One Boyden man has been prospecting a relatively untapped resource: overseas-based U.S. managers who would not dream of returning to the rat race back home, yet might be good candidates for foreign subsidiaries of other U.S. companies...
...figures and an immodest one for braggadocio into a youthful career as a "financial ad viser" to showfolk. At 25, he landed a bookkeeping job with Max Factor when the U.S. cosmetics maker entered the British market. In twelve years, Mat chan 1) helped wash away the prewar Victorian notion that lipstick was not for English ladies, and 2) became the company's European general manager...
This one revolt, led by Nat Turner in 1831, was at that time considered an aberration; it inconveniently disturbed an accepted notion of the slave system: that slavery, although morally wrong, was used with such charity, benevolence, and restraint that an organized, bloodthirsty insurrection was inthinkable. Nat Turner proved otherwise. The psychological and physical oppression of slavery was supposed to make organized revolt impossible, and the system was doubtlessly emasculating upon most slaves. Nat's revolt stood as a momentous threat to the slave society's security...