Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara "are touting the Communist line" against guns-a ridiculous notion-we clearly indicated that the Communists jumped on the anti-gun bandwagon. Contrary to your implication that The American Rifleman accepts ads for "submachine guns, silencers, antitank guns, cannon and Nazi insignia," it steadfastly rejects all such advertising. Submachine guns and silencers, by the way, are illegal under U.S. gun laws that the NRA helped to pass...
Appealing Notion. In a survey last week, TIME correspondents throughout the U.S. found that it was hard to distinguish between those Americans who want to get out of Viet Nam at any price and those who want to win the war and then get out-fast. Though the President claimed that there were "no deep divisions" over the conduct of the war, a clashing disharmony rang loud and clear the length of the land...
...balding, 44-year-old private-school teacher who shuns educational jargon and rejects the notion that either life or learning can be forced into nifty patterns is quietly emerging as one of U.S. education's most damning critics. In his 1964 book, How Children Fail, Teacher John Holt unreeled a series of classroom anecdotes to show that children-beset by teacher-imposed fear, confusion and boredom-merely grope for right answers, rather than understand. In a sequel, How Children Learn, to be published next month, he illustrates the spontaneous ways in which kids embrace knowledge before they enter schools...
...took five years in the writing of Gog (apart from a biography of President Harding and a historical study of Prohibition), has not quite made his purpose clear. Speculation suggests that in Gog and Magog he is trying to make explicit the evil and good in man, a Manichaean notion that influenced Robert Louis Stevenson in writing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A more subtle Jungian notion is that Gog (i.e., man) is not only himself but also the sum of the past of the whole race. The naked amnesiac on the shores of Scotland must relive the whole...
When Alexander Kerensky proposed a measure to abolish the death penalty in Russia, Czar Nicholas II was opposed to the notion. What would become of discipline in the army, he wanted to know? Kerensky, who was a bit of a fusspot but a far more decent man than any of the Bolsheviks who replaced him, tried gently to explain to the last of the Romanovs that the law he proposed was designed to preserve the Czar's own life...