Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among other things, the 600-word oath requires seminarians to state that they believe in miracles and also in rational proofs of God's existence, and that they "totally reject the heretical notion of the evolution of dogmas...
Fact from Surmise. Like other foreign correspondents, Bogunovic was virtually confined to Peking and denied access to high officials. He saw Mao only once in ten years. No more than two press conferences a year were held in Peking. But Bogunovic knew enough Chinese to get some notion of what was going on. From his years with the Yugoslav Communist Party, he was able to read between the lines of party pronouncements. What he surmised often turned out to be fact...
...fewer, using audio-lingual techniques developed by U.S. Army language schools. Training officers for the Peace Corps are generally about the same age as their students, frequently have fresh but forceful ways of preparing them for expectable hardships. To give . her 28 Afghanistan-bound charges some notion of what they face, Anne Janeway, 30, deprived them of chairs, beds, eating utensils, showers and Western-style toilets. She even staged a mock wedding, Afghan-style, between a girl volunteer and an Experiment staffer...
...goal of the Experiment is to purge its trainees of any notion that their problems can be solved by calling the nearest U.S. consulate or American Express office. Thus most Peace Corps trainees go through "Operation Drop-Off," whereby they are simply put down in a big city or an isolated New England town with a few dollars, told to penetrate the "local culture" and survive for up to two weeks on newly formed friendships. Initially, the hazards of the project were more apparent than its benefits. Two Iran-bound trainees could find lodging the first night only...
...Communism also constantly tries to subvert and take over nationalistic movements, and often succeeds. His insistence on making the industrial working class the driving force behind any modern revolution often leaves him grasping for threads. After all, revolutions have been far more frequently led by bourgeois intellectuals. And the notion that today's workers in Russia and China are demanding their rightful revolutionary place appears particularly quaint; what they are increasingly demanding is a consumer's place in the sun. Finally, what Deutscher regards as embryonic socialism in modern capitalism is not necessarily socialism...