Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief executive officer; the tribal king of Africa and the Middle East, who most of the time still really leads and still does it from horseback; and the god king of Asia, whose divinity is fading but whose power persists and most closely resembles the old notion of heaven-touched royalty...
...world. Having gorged themselves materially in successive waves of Fresswelle (eating), Autowelle (auto buying), Wohnungswelle (home buying), Reisewelle (traveling) and even Edelfresswelle (delicacies), they now seem intent on quite a different course: a neue Stimmungswelle?a new national mood. They want to correct the world's mistaken notion that only a fat German is a happy one, which they feel has encouraged others to ignore Germany's pressing problems and national frustrations. As Willy Brandt cries: "We are economic giants but political dwarfs...
...marriage, his sexual practices tend to become stereotyped and routinized. There are no more surprises. As a consequence of his insecurity about his masculinity, the American male is inhibited in giving full rein to his sexual fantasies. Another complicating circumstance is the typical middle-aged man's notion that at his time of life his body has to be preserved from any undue stress and strain. He may play 36 holes of golf and cards afterward, but at night, in bed with his wife, he is apt to feel that sex is too strenuous and depleting. He is more...
...this suggests that the old notion of America as a melting pot was a romantic idea about something that never really happened. "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men," wrote that perceptive and enthusiastic observer of the American scene, St. John de Crevecoeur, in 1782. Emerson elaborated and sustained the vision, and by 1908, Israel Zangwill, an admiring English Jew, was completely carried away: "America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all races of Europe are merging and reforming . . . Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians-into...
...recent years, a number of Protestant theologians have suggested that the very notion of a cathedral is an anachronism, and that the church should spend money fulfilling human needs rather than building showy edifices. Donegan is both sensitive to the charge and demonstrably concerned with human needs. Last year he admitted that his stand for civil rights had lost the diocese substantial pledges for cathedral construction-an announcement that stirred other donors to make compensatory gifts. The building fund now stands at $2,500,000, as compared with cost estimates that go from $12 million to $25 million, but Donegan...