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Word: notional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second, liberals must divest themselves of the notion that the nation, especially in the cities of the nation, can be run from agencies in Washington...

Author: By Daniel P. Moynihan, | Title: Myths and Demands of Liberal Politics | 9/30/1967 | See Source »

Most psychologists have now abandoned the notion that intelligence can be accurately tested; it is difficult even to define the terms. Einstein once confessed to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu that in the Australian Aborigine's society, he would rightfully be regarded as an intellectual idiot who could neither track a wallaby nor throw a boomerang. As Anthropologist Stanley Garn has dryly noted, if the Aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. "It is possible that some of the behavioral differences between human groups may be genetically determined," says University of Michigan Anthropologist Ernst Goldschmidt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: RACE & ABILITY | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...devised the "systems analysis" approach to military spending. In 1961, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lured him to Washington as Comptroller and Assistant Secretary of Defense. During his five years in Washington, Hitch employed reasonableness and an instinct for diplomacy to coax skeptical Congressmen and scornful generals into accepting the notion that money should be assigned on the basis of military missions rather than service demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: A Coordinator for Cal | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...Marguerite-some of her yearnings would be satisfied. Not that Clara was ever exactly sure what she was yearning for. Born in a flatbed truck on a muddy Arkansas highway, brought up in a series of squalid, lice-infested migrant labor camps, Clara simply suffered from a painfully tugging notion that life was a nasty, frightening dream, and that somehow, some day, she would wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hardscrabble Heroine | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...arbitration. A three-man panel, Reuther suggested, would impose a binding settlement after taking into account "productivity and profitability," as well as "the equity received by Ford executives and stockholders." Dismissing such considerations as "beyond the scope of collective bargaining," Chief Ford Negotiator Malcolm Denise predictably rejected the notion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Costly from Any Point of View | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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