Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-war movement needs a program to organize people to defeat the government's war. The CP meets the situation passively with the notion of disengagement from the "military industrial complex" (i.e., American society)--a clear impossibility for the vast majority of Americans, including students. Reduced to its essence, the CP's argument runs: if everyone were exempt, there would be no soldiers to fight the war. There is a Yiddish retort to such wishful thinking. It goes: "And if your grandmother were a trolley car...." And the question still remains: how do we unite Americans from different classes...
...disadvantage because he is bald ("You can't do anything unless it appeals to teen-agers"), although it apparently never disturbed him enough to make him wear a toupee. There was also the matter of being a Jew. Television networks, he implied, are keenly sensitive to the notion that there ought to be a balance of faiths among performers, especially since so many Jews seem to be in the entertainment business...
...most sensitive sphere of activity for the Joint Center is the Metropolitan Boston area. Initially, there was considerable resistance from within the Joint Center and from the university administrators to the notion that the Center had a responsibility to assist the cities of Cambridge and Boston. Fears were expressed that the universities would become entangled in local politics and that town-gown conflicts would be exacerbated. Others predicted that scholars would bog down while trying to fight their way through the bewildering maze of political and bureaucratic jurisdictions that govern the metropolitan area. By now, however, most of the doubts...
...himself, Burlingham concedes, the school has been radicalizing. He believes, however, its effect on most students is to discourage any kind of radical thinking. "Sweeping proposals are frowned on from the word go--the idea is to grind in the notion that most things shouldn't be questioned," Burlingham says...
...Institute and professor of Law, sees two problems. First, "no one does his most productive work if he's concerned about what he's going to do next, and most of the Fellows may not be sure what they'll be doing after Harvard." Second, Chayes feels that the notion that a person should expect to shuttle back and forth between government and private life "isn't too relevant." "The point of returning to private life," he explains, "is not to wait for some alarm to ring calling you back, but to settle down, adjust, and do some good work...